The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.

Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.

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

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.

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