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

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.

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.

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.

When you send out a powerful thought into the universe, you send out ripples to all parts of it which come back to you, reflecting what it is you sent out.

You don't have to wait for an inspiration to fulfil your dream because a dream is an inspiration itself.

She hates me and you hate me, but you all love Harry. Nobody loves me.

Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.

The audience cares what the movie looks like, not about the sleepless night you had worrying about the thing getting developed.

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

That we must all die, we always knew, I wish I had sooner remembred it.

When meeting royalty, it is very important, no matter how excited you are, not to vomit on them. Instead, vomit on the nearest commoner.

Let's face it, it's only called Scrubs because I'm saving 'Zach Braff' for my autobiography.