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

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

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

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.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

Happy is he who can give himself up.

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