Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.