DI : How long have you been collecting acknowledgment ?
stateless person : I’ve been gather up quotation almost as long as I think . Other kids collected postage stamp — I collected quotations . DI : When did you adjudicate they should be issue in a record and what was the publication process like for you ?
DP : I started collecting quotations by Nobel Prize Winners after take Winston Churchill ’s suppose " A fanatic is one who ca n’t vary his mind and wo n’t change the subject . “ I submitted the manuscript to some 50 publishing company in three country without winner , but eventually encounter an agent who had religion in the project , and after two years of submission , she see a publisher .
DI : Of all the Nobel winners , who do you think was the most worth ?
stateless person : The most worth was one who never got the Nobel — Mahatma Gandhi . Of those who did receive it , one of the most worth was for sure Aung San Suu Kyi , the drawing card of the democracy effort in Burma , who has maintained her Buddhist belief in non - violence , despite being under house apprehension for most of the preceding 20 year , unable to see her boy while they were develop up or her British husband when he was dying of cancer .
DI : Of all the quotes you ’ve amass , is there one that stands out as your dearie ?
DP : I have 1000 favorite quotations select from more than 6000 that I have pull together from over 1600 book by and about Nobel Prize Winners . But I theorise one of my very favorites is by the French author Anatole France , " I have always preferred the folly of the passion to the wisdom of impassivity . “
DI : If you could go back in time and meet any of the Nobel winners from history , who would it be ?
stateless person : Probably Richard Feynman , the top American physicist of the 20th C , because 1 ) he was an expert on the bongo drum ; 2 ) he could give safes ; 3 ) he like beautiful woman ; 4 ) he hated pomposity ; and 5 ) he had a not bad sense of humor . I ’d also like to meet Carl von Ossietzky , the anti - Nazi , who , after he gain ground the Nobel Peace Prize , was beaten to last by the SS . I ’d like to tell him that he was an honor to the German nation .
DI : Do you pick up quotes by people who have n’t come through the Nobel ?
DP : Yes , I gather quotations from all sources , and hope some time to bring out a collection . One of my favorites is from John Jacob Astor , the millionaire who perished in the sinking of the Titanic . When the ship collided with the iceberg , he said , " I rang for glass , but this is ridiculous . “
DI : Are you working on anything new we should be pitch up for ?
DP : I indite in the main fiction and verse , but am also currently working on a rule book of anecdotes about Nobel Prize Winners . For example , Barry Marshall , the Australian who won the Prize for Medicine , to prove his belief that breadbasket ulcer were due to the bacterium heliobacter pylori , mixed up a result of a billion bacterium , and drank it . He got very sick , his married woman importune he give the axe the experiment , but he leaven his surmise .
