Chess | Stanley Kubrick
Ciment: You are a chess player and I wonder if chess-playing and its logic have parallels with what you are...
Interview
A testify to your failures | Thomas Bernhard, 1986
In one of your speeches you once said: "We have to report about nothing but the fact that we are...
Be content with yourself | Jean Seberg’s Best Advice
Jean Seberg, Paris, 1961 Interviewer: What is the best advice anyone has ever given you until now? Jean Seberg: My...
The poetry of chess | Vladimir Nabokov, 1970
Nabokov playing chess Why are you including the chess problems with the poems? Because problems are the poetry of chess....
Inspiration & writing | William Faulkner, 1956
Jean Stein: Some people say they can't understand your writing, even after they read it two or three times. What...
Paradise will be a kind of Library | Jorge Luis Borges
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” Jorge Luis Borges . In "The Book...
I just like to play chess | Bono & Bob Dylan interview, 1984
Daniel Kramer, Bob Dylan Playing Chess, Woodstock, NY, 1964 Bono: Chess, do you play chess? Dylan: Yeah, I play chess. Are you...
Hang in and hang on / Proust Questionnaire / Dave Brubeck (1920-2012)
What is your idea of perfect happiness?All commitments fulfilled. What is your greatest fear?War. Which historical figure do you...