Naguib Mahfouz

If we reject science, we reject the common man.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

I'm very pessimistic.

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.