paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

When you spend time with your friends, what do you talk about? Those things which made an impression on you that day, that week ... I write stories the same way. Events at home, in school, at work, in the street, these are the bases for a story. Some experiences leave such a deep impression that instead of talking about them at the club I work them into a novel.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.

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.

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