I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death