Home is wherever we are if there's love here too
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.
The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death.
These are days when no one should rely unduly on his competence. Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse. Those accustomed to it must lead a Spartan life if they are not to go downhill. Hermits have observed, if for only this reason, a frugal diet. For it is only in company that eating is done justice; food must be divided and distributed if it is to be well received.
Fortune seized at the right moment gives victory.
The life of a chess master is much more difficult than that of an artist - much more depressing. An artist knows that someday there'll be recognition and monetary reward, but for the chess master there is little public recognition and absolutely no hope of supporting himself by his endeavors. If Bobby Fischer came to me for advice, I certainly would not discourage him - as if anyone could - but I would try to make it positively clear that he will never have any money from chess, live a monk-like existence and know more rejection than any artist ever has, struggling to be known and accepted.
On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama - I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick.
take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning