The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

The criminal is trying to solve his immediate problems.

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.