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

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

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

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.