"I can't express anger. I grow a tumor instead."

“Playboy offered me a lot to do their mag but I'm not even the sort to go topless on the beach.”

“All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game and stirs one's admiration.”

Source : Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (2013). “The Art of Chess Combination”, p.10, Courier Corporation

“The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.”

“I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents.”

“When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.”

“Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.”

“They will come, not to paint the bay and the sea and the boots and the moors, but the warmth of the sun and the colour of the wind. A whole new concept. Such stimulation. Such vitality.”

“Meant to be?’ It's just something people say so that they don't have to look at all the things they did wrong and wish they could take back. Only by the time they figure that out, it's too late.”

Source : Zoey Dean (2008). “The A-List #10: California Dreaming: An A-List Novel”, p.154, Hachette UK