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.

We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

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

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.