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.

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

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

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

How should they answer?

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands.

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.

I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses.

In the assumption that power belongs as a matter of course to capital, all economists are Marxians.

Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.

You can't just put the military in the streets of the United States rounding up illegal aliens. I think that would be a violation of federal law.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.