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.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.

Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.

It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.

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.

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.