I don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.

In order to validate our Africanness, we hold on to tradition at all cost, banning critical engagement in an attempt to preserve its sacredness

Once you understand life--you understand life's potential.

Numbers are important to the life, you better stay good at arithmetics.

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician.

Many Europeans think that all Moroccans speak French, but no. I had to make an effort to learn it when I studied French literature at the university in Rabat.

Architecture is petrified music.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.

I have not slept one wink.