Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off

I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.

God’s holiness demands that sin be punished—but God’s love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.

I stared you chew down your Swedish meatballs. I hope you could see how you chewed my heart then spit it out

Simplicity is not a simple thing.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.

If you want to sell a steak, you can't just have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

I don't know if you've ever had just five dollars in the bank, but I've found that if that's all you have, you can't get it out.

Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts.

Independent labels take nothing and make something out of it. Major labels buy that something, and try to make more out of it.