What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying 'Oh our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence they haven't taken away the injustice the laws are still on the books.

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from and how they're made they never seem quite as sacred again.

I want to serve chess through games books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome too to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest quite content.

Works of art often last forever or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves especially gallery exhibitions are like flowers they bloom and then they die then exist only as memories or pressed in magazines and books.

Be true to yourself help others make each day your masterpiece make friendship a fine art drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible build a shelter against a rainy day give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

I also met early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.

It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?

I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone learning some French.