Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.
Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.
I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
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.
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.