Being a friend of Fischer obviously is no undivided pleasure, though being Fischer seems sadder.

Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.

When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power.

Play out a boring game to the end and funny things can happen; Fischer knew it.

Every single desire can lead to dream and every single dream has possibility to become reality.

Like some huge, mutant chicken–I sat there hatching a gas-egg the size of a planet.

We are candles, I remember thinking, and the wind is rising.

It is feeling and not reasoning that drives one to prayer.' -Emma to Charles

This [the earthquake] was a very big influence on me, and the issue of life and death from then on does recur in my films.

Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are.

I go out with friends, but I don't have time to get in trouble.

The man who can look upon a crisis without being willing to offer himself upon the altar of his country is not for public trust.

It's only people who are hysterical who can play hysterical parts.

Pointless. . . . Like giving caviar to an elephant.