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

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.

In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

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.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization.