I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.
The heart is a place of secrets.
The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.
The real malady is fear of life, not of death
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.