Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.

Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost.

I'm floating. The absence of pain is powerful.

As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'

We have two physical eyes, but every pore of the body is also an eye.

I'm learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework...procrastinating and negotiation.

I don't believe much in luck. I believe more in work, in convincing, in stubbornness and in capacity.

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

I have a tremendous appetite for life; the phone rings and your whole life could change.

When you understand who and what you are, your radiance projects into the universal radiance and everything around you becomes creative and full of opportunity.

He [Castro] is a genius. We spoke about everything.

Contentment is not happiness. Contentment is stagnation and decay, whereas happiness is life and growth.