I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

In the calculus of good deeds you have the most to gain.

I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

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

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.