My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

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

Without literature my life would be miserable.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.