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.

Literature 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.

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.

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.

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.

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

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