I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

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

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

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

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Happy is he who can give himself up.

Visit me once each year, for it's wrong to abandon people forever.