Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

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

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

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

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

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.

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.