"I don’t see anyone better than me. No player does things that I cannot do myself, but I see things others can’t do. There’s no more complete player than me. I’m the best player in history — in the good and the bad moments."

"Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. For his…"

"The residents of Mehrgarh who raised the first mud-brick homes of two or three rooms may not have realized …"

"Look at this watch of mine. Two hands there, nice looking, but let me take the hands out and it will be no …"

"Of course, one way of thinking about all of life and civilization is as being about how the world registers…"

"If history is the judge to which we appeal, then it can also find against us. It can highlight our mistakes…"

"Roberto Baggio was the best Italian fantasista; he was better than Meazza and Boniperti, and he was amongst…"