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

Most of those who died did not die of hunger but of hatred. Feeling hatred diminishes you. It eats at your from within and attacks the immune system. When you have hatred inside you, it always crushes you in the end.

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

People must insist on the right to say no, to be alone, to stand out from the herd. Creative artists can say all this in their own way and in their own field, by hard, rigorous work.

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

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.

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