Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

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

I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.

The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.

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.

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