"What would Chess be without silly mistakes?"

“My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.”

“Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.”

Source : "Evanescence: Amy Lee Explains the New Songs". VH1 News, September 18, 2006.

“Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.”

“The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.”

“Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.”

“Only people of proven character should be placed in positions of spiritual leadership.”

“•"for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.”

“I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.”