I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Life is a message scribbled in the dark.

Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity, and splendid insincerity

And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion.

Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts.

Literature is invention. Fiction is fiction. To call a story a true story is an insult to both art and truth.

Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.