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.

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

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

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

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

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

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.