In the digital age of "overnight" success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.
Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.
Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost.
If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong!
The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.
Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
Much like photographs, I also love the idea that ghosts are memories frozen in time. We can be haunted by both just as horrifically. One really becomes a metaphor for the other.