What happened when we died? How were we to know that death wasn't as profound an adventure as life was?

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

There's gratification in making somebody laugh. It's a wonderful sound. I find myself, to this day, doing it, wanting to make people laugh.

My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

I go back there and all my friends are there when I have my golf tournament. They treat me the same way they did when I was growing up.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I would have been a disastrous soldier.

Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique.

This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.

I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.

If you get stuck to the committed path then... this wall has to be.. KNOCKED DOWN!!