The Nobel Prize gives one the opportunity to take public stands.
One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course. 
An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937.
A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking and seeing friends.
The years since the Nobel Prize have been productive ones for me.
I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. 