My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
Only the poor are handicapped by honor.
The real malady is fear of life, not of death
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.