History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Naguib MahfouzExcessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life.
Naguib MahfouzLiterature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.
Naguib Mahfouz