Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious.

Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience - twenty times.

Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad.

No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.

Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.

Pass through knowledge to arrive at simplicity.

Confession is good for the soul, it empties the spirit making more room for sin.

And he recalled the ancient adage: Who must do the harsh things? He who can.

Failure is The Way of Success

Love means never having to say your are sorry

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling that desire.

We're not used to seeing movies, especially with physical action, when it isn't the man who comes in to save the day.

People wrestle alligators but not once has someone done it without an audience.

Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.

There is religion in everything around us, - a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of Nature, which man would do well to imitate.

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

I think this issue of climate change is truly important, and that it is a major tragedy how poorly it's been handled.

I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.