"The more you subtract, the more you add,"

“I'm not the kind of coach who just goes out and buys players for the sake of it. I'm a coach who wants to - and can - improve players.”

Source : "Louis van Gaal in his own words: The best quotes from the new Manchester United boss" by Ben Burrows, www.mirror.co.uk. May 19, 2014.

“I'm much more into old-world, intimate conversations on the phone. I like to write letters.”

“It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working, But we said, 'Why can't we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk?' Sometimes that's where your better creative work happens.”

Source : "Box clever". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2007.

“I'd worried that letting her get too close would break me. Unfortunately, I'd worried about that a little too late. Because I was broken. The Cage I was before Eva no longer existed. As much as I didn't want to admit it, I'd fallen in love with her. I'd allowed someone in and she hadn't want me. I hadn't been good enough. I never was.”

“There was a time when fast playing and fretboard pyrotechnics on the bass were important to me and when I am recording a bass track, that is still very important to me.”

“There are no part-time Christians.”

“I would never wear fur.”

“Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?”