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

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 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.

I don't study; I create.

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach. Then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

The human spirit’s unquenchable drive for originality and compulsion for creating art is the compelling force of our humanity.

I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me.

Purple lipstick? Naw, that looks stupid on all girls!

To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.

I have always loved and continued to love Johnny Depp. Period. End of story.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.

Every city is a living body.

Even when there are no results. Things you can and can't do. Things you can and can't win. Even if there's none of that, I'll still try my hardest.