Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.

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

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.

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

This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue.

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.

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

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

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

Why was it that women were expected to restrain our every passion for the sake of propriety, but men couldn't do it even for the sake of the women they loved?

Life is the greatest gift. As long as I live, I can only be grateful.

Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.

John Paul to give me a shot, I'll never forget as long as I live.

People speak with enormous pomposity and arrogance about music.

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

There were moments from my childhood when I remembered realizing that I was too big. I carried them around as weapons to use against myself, to remind myself there was something wrong with me.

Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects.

I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.