Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

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

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

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

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.