Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolesence.
Chess and me, it's hard to take them apart. It's like my alter ego.
I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent
Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.
I like to make them squirm.
Blitz chess kills your ideas.
The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.
[To the British actor who annoyed her by repeated references to his busy 'shedule':] I think you're full of skit.
Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life.
I went to SXSW in 2011. God, that was awful. I mean, I only went because my publisher wanted me to promote the book and the organizers invited me and it seemed silly not to go, especially for a relatively unknown first-time author. This is just not my cup of tea; the fewer such events I do on an annual basis, the happier I feel.
The claw of the magnolia, drunk on its own scents, asks nothing of life.