If you are interested in improving, think of a draw offer as an offer to remain ignorant of what you would have learned in the remainder of the game.

Don't worry about your rating, work on your playing strength and your rating will follow.

When you trade, the key concern is not always the value of the pieces being exchanged, but what's left on the board.

Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.

W“e’ve taken our love of crows and glitter to the point of no return. Our best advice is don’t get caught up in the details… just enjoy the over-the-top romance.

No matter how thoroughly you plan, no matter how much you think you know, you've never thought of everything.

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

When we describe a process, or make out an invoice, or photograph a tree, we create models; without them we would know nothing of reality and would be animals.

People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically.

What is of consequence is I did my best.

Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.