Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.

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

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

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.

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.

We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.

The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes.