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.

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.

Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.

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

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.

A nuclear power reactor is just a fancy way of boiling water.

It was kind of sort of the heavens opened up and I realized that Bach, at least, you know - out of all the classical music - needs to be a big part of my life.

If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.

The President is the peoples lobbyist.

Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

When people are in acute crisis, residential care may be needed, but this should not be seen as a medical issue.

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.