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

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.

Chess is 99 percent calculation.

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

A clue! From M!""Who's M?""Maybe M is for Mackintosh! Maybe Grabes ans Mackintosh are in cahoots!""Or maybe M is for Mom. Also, who says 'cahoots'?

Hey, you know that thing Dostoyevesky wrote on gambling? It's like that. When you're surrounded by endless possibilities, one of the hardest things you can do is pass them up.

You should never say bad things about the dead, you should only say good . . . Joan Crawford is dead. Good.

Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.

I love REAL set construction and think that sets are very important part of the storytelling and scope of a film.

I am a simple man and I want simple answers.

The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

I'm lookin' forward to doin' a lot of big things. I've been doin' a lot of big things: a lot of traveling, a lot of recording - I'm excited.

Time with his old flail Beat me full sore; Till: Hold, I cried, I'll stand no more. Then I heard a wail And looking spied How love's little bow Had laid time low.

Man can only describe God in his own poor language.