Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

