Now sometimes I don't know if I feel well. Because I've been in my body for years.
You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good day.
The world lies right beyond the handlebars of any bicycle.
The bicycle is a vehicle of revolution. It can destroy the tyranny of the automobile as effectively as the printing press brought down despots of flesh and blood. The revolution will be spontaneous, the sum total of individual revolts like my own. It may have already begun.
Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.
No one can understand what’s the best thing for you to do, other than yourself.
My stories were translated and had many reviews before I had an interview with any international or Arab newspaper. If the stories hadn't succeeded, you wouldn't have asked me my position on Arab festivals and I wouldn't have been interested in the festivals anyway, because I would be in seclusion, writing.
Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.