I'm Happy - At Times - Making

Chess Teaches You To Control The Initial Excitement You Feel When You See Something That Looks Good And It Trains You To Think Objectively When You're In Trouble

I'm Not Afraid Of Dying Tomorrow, Only Of Being Killed.

You Sit At The Board And Suddenly Your Heart Leaps. Your Hand Trembles To Pick Up The Piece And Move It. But What Chess Teaches You Is That You Must Sit There Calmly And Think About Whether It's Really A Good Idea And Whether There Are Other, Better Ideas.

The Great Nations Have Always Acted Like Gangsters, And The Small Nations Like Prostitutes.

I Don't Think That Writers Or Painters Or Filmmakers Function Because They Have Something They Particularly Want To Say. They Have Something That They Feel. And They Like The Art Form; They Like Words, Or The Smell Of Paint, Or Celluloid And Photographic Images And Working With Actors. I Don't Think That Any Genuine Artist Has Ever Been Oriented By Some Didactic Point Of View, Even If He Thought He Was.