Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Hey, Carlos," the Professor says when he walks in. "How was REACH?" "It sucked." "Can you be more specific?" my guardian asks. "It really sucked," I elaborate, sarcasm dripping from every word.
Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We've all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.
The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.