Training in analysis (like any other form of chess training) should be treated very seriously.

It is not possible to become a great player without having learned how to analyse deeply and accurately.

I feel that it is no less interesting to be a trainer than to play oneself. I even take greater delight in the tournament successes of my lads than I do in my own.

As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.

It is very important to learn to weigh up objectively (or assess intuitively) the totality of the competitive and psychological factors.

Black is now in desperate need of a good idea. Or, to put it standard chess notation, +-

I do not know to whom the aphorism 'There are no sound studies, only ones that haven't been busted yet' belongs, but it has measure of truth in it.

Living in a castle is objectively romantic.

Thus it is with proud silly people, who think themselves above everyone else, and are too proud to ask or take advice.

You steal the limelight, you steal the market share

There are some actors that are so gifted, that move you in such a way that every time you see their names again, you go and pay another ticket because you want to have that experience again.

I just never want to completely grow up.

If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.

People don't like politicians.

I know that they're all unhappy because nobody loves the right person the way they should and because they don't understand that it's really their own self that they're mad at.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.