What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.
The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.

