I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.

There are some writers who feel they are elected by God. I am not. I am elected by the devil - this is clear.

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.