"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.

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

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

Literature should be more revolutionary than revolutions themselves; writers must find the means to continue to be critical of the negative elements in the sociopolitical reality.

Without literature my life would be miserable.

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