Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

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

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.