I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves

I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia...

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.

It seems to take me about five years to get a record together, which is not a clever idea.

I have seen children dying of hunger. Over against a dying child La Nausee cannot act as a counterweight.

Radio... that wonderful invention by which I can reach millions of people... who fortunately can't reach me.

If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were - and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.

If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.

Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.