Only the poor are handicapped by honor.
We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.
Without literature my life would be miserable.
Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.
It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.