Chess is a natural cerebral high.

I feel that everyone is good. In this way I give every game my best effort. The moment that you let up is the time that you can be hit by the sucker punch.

There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet.

Fly free, my daughter. Be what I could never be and leave the cage forever.

It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.

At sixteen, Sabina took moon baths, first of all, because everyone else took sun baths, and second, she admitted, because she had been told it was dangerous.

We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.

Bad decisions made with good intentions, are still bad decisions.

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

When I'm anchoring, I miss chasing stories in the field.

I think going back to school, studying as much as you can, especially literature and close reading some of the most beautiful works. You can always apply that to acting.

I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I do that on the guitar?