"What is behind you is forgotten. You can't remember danger and difficulty when it is behind you"

“Winning ugly is still winning.”

“My house had suddenly turned into a hospital ward.”

“The kind of approach that inspires me is taking what you've built and figuring out how to turn it into a new experience by expanding it smartly. The challenge is figuring out what's the best way to do that without totally jumping off of a cliff.”

“The main line of the Yugoslav Attack has become just too vast for most players to study in depth, and anyone intending to venture into such tricky waters needs to have an intimate knowledge of all the hidden reefs.”

“The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?' That's the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a kind of form of travel writing.”

“I don't look in the mirror and think that I have flaws. I actually look in the mirror and see me. I see a lot of different characters and a lot of different things.”

Source : Interview With Kaleem Aftab, www.ign.com. December 6, 2007.

“I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.”

“But somethings in life are more important than being happy. Like being free to think for yourself.”

Source : Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.295, Pan Macmillan