Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

Happy is he who can give himself up.

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.

I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason

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

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.