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

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

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.