You either care or you don’t.

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

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.

You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.

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

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.