One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Bio: Johann "Hans" Joseph Kmoch was an Austrian-Dutch-American chess International Master, International Arbiter, and a chess journalist and author, for which he is best known.
