you can survive only if nothing is necessary to you

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

Do not fear to live thy sacred life.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

A life that moves to gracious ends Thro' troops of unrecording friends, A deedful life, a silent voice.

Coaching secrets? I don't think I got any. The main "secret" - love for chess.

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty...

There will be no true freedom without virtue, no true science without religion, no true industry without the fear of God and love to your fellow citizens.

How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe.

There's nothing hard about acting except the long hours.

The flux of life is pouring its aesthetic aspect into your eyes, your ears - and you ignore it because you are looking for your canons of beauty in some sort of frame or glass case or tradition.

I've always felt very comfortable with accents. Once I get an accent, I can do it, and that's just something I've been able to do my whole life.