I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. (Umberto Eco)

We have art to save ourselves from the truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. (Ayn Rand)

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. (Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower)