"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears."

"Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two."

"Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history."

"Football is a game about feelings and intelligence."

"I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture."

"I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back."

"Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which 'learning' and 'play' are diametrically opposed. 'Learning' is the serious stuff that happens inside a classroom and can be measured via multiple choice questions and a No. 2 pencil. 'Play' is frivolous, fun, and worst of all, optional."