Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.

Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home.'

Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.

The future is easy because it doesn’t exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.

Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

Hiro watches the large, radioactive, spear-throwing killer drug lord ride his motorcycle into Chinatown. Which is the same as riding it into China, as far as chasing him down is concerned.

It makes good sense to revere the sun and the stars ... because we are their children

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

I don't believe that there's anyone in the world without a competitive bone in their body.

I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.