I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

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.

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

Surviving - that is the other name of a mourning whose possibility is never to be awaited.

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.