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.

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.

I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.

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

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

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

Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.