Nowadays grandmasters no longer study their opponent's games so much, but they study his character, his behaviour and his temperament in the most thorough fashion.

The most powerful weapon in Chess is to have the next move

In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.

To lose one's objective attitude to a position, nearly always means ruining your game.

The essence of Chess is thinking about what Chess is.

A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.

Chess is imagination.

When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.

Far from all of the obvious moves that go without saying are correct.

Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.

Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.

The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable than one who marches in the uniform of an ally.

How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...?

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.

I do as much research as is physically possible when I'm playing a real person, be they alive or dead.

The body is the doorway to the timeless, because the body is always where we are and always in the present moment.

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.