Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

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

I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.

We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

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.

We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.