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

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.

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

We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.

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.

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.

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