Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.
If God exists, there's no way he's French
The only great English midfielder in my career was Paul Scholes. He had elegance in him. Others were pretenders.
There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little glimmer of hope or pearl of wisdom.
I don’t feel pressure … I don’t give a toss about it. I spent the afternoon of Sunday, 9 July, 2006 in Berlin sleeping and playing the PlayStation. In the evening, I went out and won the World Cup.
I lifted my eyes to the heavens and asked for help because if God exists, there's no way he's French.
After the wheel, the best invention is the PlayStation.
It is simply much easier to infuse life, feeling, and higher truth into a novel than a non-fiction work, to find the license to write truth without being wedded to fact.
Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?
It's very difficult to explain the effect the first blues record I heard had on me, except to say that I recognized it immediately. It was as if I were being reintroduced to something that I already knew, maybe from another, earlier life. For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.