Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent game.

You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer

Chess is a game of bad moves.

Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.

Chess is 99 percent calculation.

Appreciate and find ways to invest in yourself

You wanna eat? I can hand you a spoon.

Did you once own ruby slippers, and did a house fall on your head? You're a daft little munchkin.

In dog culture, when someone calls you, you should absolutely not come if that results in the ending of something you like or initiation of something you don’t like.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

The flu-casters would draw out the maps and keep people engaged at regular intervals ... beaming it from the WHO bunker.

I am better than my reputation

I always felt at home with Krishna. You see it was already a part of me. I think it's something that's been with me from my previous birth.

Well, I talk about one moment in the book, but I don't know if that's my moment of discovery. It was a moment. In the book, I talk about how I started shooting, how I became a photographer.

It sounds corny, but it's absolutely true: A song chooses me. I don't go looking for a certain kind of lyric. It kind of develops its own little arc and I'll just see what happens.