As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond in a mind, so let us instill in ourselves the wisdom of love.

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

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

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

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

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.