Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror

Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack

The King is a fighting piece. Use it!

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.

In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.

I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth.

For every wounded warrior, there is a myltitude of family, friends, and communities who are forever changed.

I coudn't be kind to him after what he'd done, couldn't be cruel after what I had done

The last vestiges of consciousness tell her she has just witnessed her own murder, all she ever was and hoped to be is gone.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away.

I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be, I always forget to include myself.

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

I don't want to weaken the Patriot Act. I want to repeal it.

My house is the red earth . . . .

Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.