My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

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

I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.

In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

In the 70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

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.