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

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?

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

When you spend time with your friends, what do you talk about? Those things which made an impression on you that day, that week ... I write stories the same way. Events at home, in school, at work, in the street, these are the bases for a story. Some experiences leave such a deep impression that instead of talking about them at the club I work them into a novel.

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.