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

I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire

I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your mind, Mr. Writer, and for once in your life be the flower that smells rather than the chronicler of the aroma. There's not much pleasure in writing what you live. The challenge is to live what you write.

Chaplin and Keaton are still the best. They know that there is nothing more serious than laughter, an art demanding infinite work, and that as long as the world revolves, making others laugh is the most splendid of activities.

There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world.

...because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups.

Memory. My poison, my food.