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

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.