Some pieces in the King's Indian appear on a 'special price' list: the dark square bishops are at the top of that list.

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'.

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.

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.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions; as, "the wrath of God," "the day of wrath," etc. . . .

There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.

There is no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don't.

No hair so small but hath his shadow.

History's one great lesson is that reactionaries are losers.

National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.

Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act.