I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.

He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams.

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.

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.

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