I don't study; I create.

It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.

Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

Worldly love is limited. Divine love is infinite.

Who needs them when we have each other?

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices.

I have seen the future! Go back!

I am really Method-y.

I would like to release an album that I truly believe in, thus it is hard to put a time limit on it. I want to really go deeper and discover myself again through music.

I have a spiritual practice which helps to keep me grounded and centered.

Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.

We're always going to be cherry-picking to make religion make sense. Especially in the modern context.

My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.