"Never, never be afraid to do what's right."

“Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again...”

Source : Chelsea Cain (2011). “Evil at Heart”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

“I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.”

“Without difficulties, life would be like a stream without rocks and curves – about as interesting as concrete. Without problems, there can be no personal growth, no group achievement, no progress of humanity. But what mattes about problems is what one does with them.”

“Once a gunner, always a gunner”

Source : "Arsenal fans should aim anger at Arsène Wenger, not Cesc Fábregas" by Toby Moses, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2014.

“With drama, you need to be laughing, in between takes, 'cause you're going to those recesses of your soul and those dangerous parts. Normally, if you're not an actor or some crazy artist, you don't feel the need to run around in those areas. You keep them separate because it's painful.”

“It was [Donald trump] had seen me on the job there, doing other things, and he asked me if I could run the place, and so we had that conversation. But I appreciate that, too.”

“The cold war is over; Japan won.”

“Old St Petersburg remains a beautiful stage set but to the Russians it is not what Rome is to the Italians or Paris to the French. The decisions are made in the Kremlin. The city of Peter remains a museum, open from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM.”

Source : Joseph Wechsberg (1977). “In Leningrad”, Doubleday Books