No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.

Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double-entry accounting.

Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad.

Pass through knowledge to arrive at simplicity.

The rope connecting two men on a mountain is more than nylon protection it is an organic thing that transmits subtle messages of intent and disposition from man to man it is an extension of the tactile senses, a psychological bond, a wire along which currents of communication flow.

Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance only the fiction by means of which the tender-minded negotiate their lust?