There is nothing useless to men of sense.

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in...

Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

Good talkers are only found in Paris.

He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune.

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

A very great Iliad… concerns the creation of a nation.

I don’t feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

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.

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them...

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.