“And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.”

Illiteracy does not impede the practice of democracy, as witnessed by the success of democracy in India despite the high illiteracy rate.

On the other hand, to eradicate illiteracy requires that we elect a fair and efficient political regime.

If you can’t find good in your own country, you won’t find it anywhere else.

Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.

Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person.

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read:

I am according to my slave’s expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

One doesn’t need a university diploma to realize that the ruler is oppressive and corrupt.

Everything that happened to you is a page that’s been turned and is done with.

Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.

Interest in the pseudo-sciences has become extraordinary.

I was 41 when I became a dad. I try to be as much fun as my father was, but I’m at home more – and less of a disciplinarian.

In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.