And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.

The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist.

Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!

I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

There's no point living if you can't, at least occasionally, live.

And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.