The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

Happy is he who can give himself up.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.

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.

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

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

The heart is a place of secrets.