My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

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.

The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.

But there was no going back to that idyllic time when only one god wanted to kill me.

Each day is a new opportunity to make ourselves better. Don't wait for things to change, become the change.

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

Those who live by the Qur'an have a scriptural mandate to kill Christians and Jews... it teaches that very clearly.

the wheel of fate crushes us all

I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for me to be on them.

We've gotten lost in our Ego and have forgotten that our Soul's only motive is to merge with the Beloved.