Without literature my life would be miserable.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

The real malady is fear of life, not of death.

No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.