I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.

Madness is the acme of intelligence.

I found myself in a sea in which the waves of joy and sorrow were clashing against each other.

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.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

Insults are the business of the court.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.