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.

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

You know what I'm afraid of? That God is sick of us.

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.