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

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams.

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.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

If we reject science, we reject the common man.