I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.

Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.

Tournament chess is not relaxing. It's stressful, even if you win.

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

Proceed with caution when you befriend a writer, for if you fall out of their good graces they have the delightful capability of doing any number of dastardly things to you upon the written page.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

There is some kind of elegant gentleness to Paris that I don't quite understand yet.

Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables

The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.

I have produced all kinds of music because I love all kinds of music.

The body can feed the body only.

Most of the press is sent to my publicist so I do see most of what is written about me.

Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to that individual to discover what it should be