This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.