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

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

"Open Sesame!"

"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.""

"A library of books is the fairest garden in the world, and to walk there is an ecstasy."

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