I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

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.

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

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

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

Insults are the business of the court.