Becoming the opponent means you should put yourself in an opponent's place and think from the opponent's point of view.

What is essential is to suddenly make a move totally unexpected by the opponent, pick up on the advantage of fright, and seize the victory right then and there.

There is even rhythm in being empty.

As you get the rhythm you discern how to win.

Her memories were beads jumbled loose in a box, unstrung.

Celibacy doesn't make you enlightened, otherwise every nun or priest in Buddhism or Christianity would be enlightened. People who don't date and can't get any action would be enlightened.

I don't need to publish to make a living.

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.

The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.

Those who believe the Author of Nature to be also the Author of Scripture must expect to find in Scripture the same sorts of difficulties that they find in Nature.

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

Langmuir is a regular thinking machine. Put in facts, and you get out a theory.

Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake.

There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.