I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.

The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.

People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.

I was never either pro-culture or counter-culture. I was in a kind of middle state.

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.

Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.