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

"It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words."

"Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim."

"I wanted to be a soccer player, and I became the best of the best, the number one, better than Maradona, better than Pele, and even better than Messi - but only at night, nighttime, during my dreams. When I wake up, I realized that I have wooden legs and that I'm doomed to be a writer."

"A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don't know what they're talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you're talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is."

"There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, 'I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.'"

"I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award."

"The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction."