In the struggle of good against evil, it's always the people who get killed.

The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.

Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.

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.

If the world is upside down the way it is now, wouldn't we have to turn it over to get it to stand up straight?

I go about the world, hand outstretched, and in the stadiums I plead: 'A pretty move, for the love of God.' And when good soccer happens, I give thanks for the miracle and I don't give a damn which team or country performs it.

In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.