I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

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.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.