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.

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

Happy is he who can give himself up.

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams.

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

I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom.