You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.

The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.

The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.