He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.

Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.