Chess is the only game greater than its players.

We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel.

Nothing is so good it lasts eternally. Perfect situations must go wrong. But this has never yet prevented me wanting far too much for far too long.

No one in your life is with you constantly. No one is completely on your side.

Why are you obsessed with fighting? Stick to fishing from now on!

It happens that we DON’T SEE CHRIST AS GOD but simply the right man at the right time at the right place.

See my eyes - are they safe? Are they even sane?

Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.

I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations.

I have a fear of doing stuff thats not very good and being remembered for that.

Digital is a disaster. No digital radio has the correct time and they don't even agree with each other.

Those who travel outward seek completeness in things

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.

I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career

I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupped my cheek, fingers light on my temple. "And Sassenach," he whispered, "Your face is my heart.

This is one image. This is one moment. This is one statement. ARTPOP

As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.

Living without hate for people is almost impossible. There is nothing wrong with fantasizing about revenge. You can have that feeling. You just shouldn't act in it.

I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have ruined a generation of trumpeters.