Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

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

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

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.

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

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