Do you believe in fate, Mallory?

The Dude abides. I don’t know about you, but I take comfort in that. It’s good knowing he’s out there, the Dude, takin’ her easy for all us sinners.

Memorize opening variations, endgame techniques, combinations, ideas, even whole games if you can, but not rules and dogma.

In the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.

Hard en bitter is de wereld.