We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

There is an important erotic element in A Thousand and One Nights, which is one of the keys to understanding the Orient.

Our steps invent the path as we proceed; behind us they leave no trace, only the void. So we shall always look ahead and trust our feet. They will take us as far as our minds will go... -- Tahar ben Jelloun

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.