Chess is one long regret.

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

Chess is one long regret.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.