I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.

I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

When you throw everything up in the air anything becomes possible.

Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.

Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.