I might not be in a relationship anymore, but I don't believe that people should have to lie to themselves just to make somebody else feel good.

I didn't mean to turn you on.

To be honest with you, I dont male-bash. I dont believe in male-bashing. I write about things that are natural, that happen in life.

There's a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter — an act.

You don't have to reach for greatness if it is already in you.

I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is - namely, a problem.

The devaluation of words and promises regarding free enterprise is, in principle, worse than the devaluation of the rouble

I think once you recognize the unconditional love of an Almighty, it tends to put joy in your heart. Which in my case, it did.

Children's stories force logic upon the gruesome facts of our lives. They mirror our troubles and submit them to a chain of causality.

Some people tend to throw your love to the dogs when you become totally submissive to them, but when you want to get out of the heat, they pull you back into the kitchen.

We're a humane country. We got to make sure that we find the intelligence. We have do it [protecting our boundaries] in a humane way following the law.

The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offered to me.

I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them.