Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.

Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.

We have to dare, to dare again, always to dare!

The laws of chess are as beautiful as those governing the universe -- and as deadly.

By the European Julian calendar it was already November 4, exactly one year and seven months from the date—dare she think of it—when she’d determined to withdraw the Montglane Service from its hiding place of a thousand years. But here in Russia, by the Gregorian calendar, it was only October 23.

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do. —Savielly Tartakover (Polish GM)

All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.

Write. Remember, people may keep you (or me) from being a published author but no one can stop you from being a writer. All you have to do is write. And keep writing. While you're working at a career, while you're raising children, while you're trout fishing -- keep writing! No one can stop you but you.

Only boring people are bored.

Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone.

One should never eat les crustaces in months spelled without R—they may contain poison.