Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

In some circles Stalin has in fact been making a comeback. His portrait hangs above the dashboard of trucks, a symbol of blue- collar nostalgia for a tough leader.

Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.

Every time some spoiled European soccer millionaire complains about the blaring vuvuzelas, I want them to blare louder.

What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.

Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.

Where love is no room is too small.

I'm healthy now. I probably wouldn't say I'm at my best fitness level and I haven't played that much lately, but I'm healthy and that's all that matters.

Don't express your ideas too clearly. Most people think little of what they understand, and venerate what they do not.

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.

I loved 'Freaks and Geeks.' I don't know a better show.

When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

I don't get the action... well, I never did get the big action hero parts. I was always locked into making the kids movies, which were a lot of fun.

The best thing that I think happened to me was I got the opportunity to have really good players and we were able to meet the demand of the competition. And I think that's what I value most.

Chile is a country that sells cheap and buys expensive, because we have to pay for manufactured goods from countries at much higher levels of development.