Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages. People feel they know me and the minute they talk about my life or books I feel at home. Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved – not where you are put in prison.

Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.

moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.

The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.

All revolutions in history have obstacles.