Doris Lessing, upon winning the Nobel Prize for Literature: “One can’t get more excited than one gets, you know?”

"Oh, Christ," she says on the video. "I've won all the prizes in Europe. Every bloody one. … Am I supposed to get elated, or excited or what? … I want to start another book, and now I'm going to be too busy giving interviews …."

Doris Lessing, RIP. (Unless you don't feel like doing that either.)