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

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

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.

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.