The one day you don't go into practice and use that day to the fullest is the one day someone is going to beat you.

Anybody could be as good as Nemov. Yeah, he's a great gymnast, but anyone can be that good.

I'm not letting any 17 year old beat me tonight

Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

Your imagination is a gift, unwrap it.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.

I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for poetry.

The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from another point of view, the words dry in your mouth.

Somewhere in the world is a doctor who is worse than all other doctors...and someone has an appointment with him in the morning.

Attention is the cardinal psychological virtue. On it depends perhaps the other cardinal virtues, for there can hardly be faith nor hope nor love for anything unless it first receives attention.

Cowardice, when done correctly, can be its own kind of bravery.

Find the pattern and anticipate them!

Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.