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

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

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.

A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction.

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

A racist is just an ignorant man afraid of people who are different from him.

Two passing jetliners reported to controllers they’d seen a man with a gun seated on a deck chair at eleven thousand feet…

It's ugly, but is it art?

What’s this war called again?”“The Hundred Years War.”“Hmmmm, got a bad feeling about this one.

The ink of a pen is simply the blood of a heart

My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner

When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once.

Contemplation places us in a purity and radiance which is far above our understanding.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song

Don’t be stupid, Jess.” – Abigail “Brains don’t exactly run in my family. Suicidal lunacy, on the other hand…” – Sundown