A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.
Naguib MahfouzIt is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
Naguib MahfouzIf you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
Naguib Mahfouz