Write for pleasure and publish for money.

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.

Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

Thus people--so it seems to me-- Become good friends from sheer ennui.