Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.

In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody

However hopeless the situation appears to be there yet always exists the possibility of putting up a stubborn resistance.

Chess is a test of wills.

In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.

I was unlucky, like my country.

An innovation need not be especially ingenious, but it must be well worked out.

If per capita was a problem, decapita could be arranged

It is better to live with faith than fear.

Last words when sending our boy to college: "If there's anything you want call us and we'll show you how to live without it."

Like most artists, I live out of a suitcase.

At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.

There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.

All actors are looking for that role that's going to define who they are. When it happens, it's a good thing.

One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans.

All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.

I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.