Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.

I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday. Also, my love for good writing pushed me.

"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III.

An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.

I was afraid of marriage. I had the impression married life would take up all my time. I saw myself drowning in visits and parties. No freedom.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.

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

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.

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

Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

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.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death