A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

They write them long because they can't write them short.

Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.

I looked down at the chessboard. The move with the knight was wrong. I put it back where I had moved it from. Knights had no meaning in this game. It wasn't a game for knights.

She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.