It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

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

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others.