Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.

Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

We here in Egypt are fed up with U.S. colonialism.

Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.

You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.