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

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

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

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

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

At 21, I discovered repression and injustice. The army would shoot students with real bullets.