"[M]y auntie, Tití, who was the reader in the family, gave me a picture book version of “The Arabian Nights,” and I wa…"

"It is a book so vast that it is not necessary to have read it, for it is a part of our memory."

"I'd like every single Arab to read One Thousand and One Nights. They [would] learn a lot from them, especially [becau…"

"When I was alive I was dust which was, But now I am dust in dust I am dust which never was."

"On the black road of life think not to find Either a friend or lover to your mind; If you must love, oh then, love so…"

"Maslamah ibn Dinar said: "Each pleasure that does not forward the soul to God is not so much as a pleasure as a calam…"

"Scheherazade...possessed courage, wit, and penetration, infinitely above her sex. She had read much, and had so admir…"

"The proverb says: "Each man envies, the strong openly, the weak in secret.""

"I discovered fantasy and eroticism in One Thousand and One Nights, which I read in Lebanon at age fourteen. At that t…"

"I hope that Allah will not make me immortal, for death is His greatest gift to any true believer."