In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.
Madness is the acme of intelligence.
The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.
The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.