I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at a point so that I do not know any longer where I am going.

We are all mediators, translators.

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace.

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.