If we reject science, we reject the common man.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

Insults are the business of the court.

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

The real malady is fear of life, not of death

Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.