I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're - you're the best and you'll win every time.

What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.

Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.

You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes; that's what intuition is.

I am trying to beat the guy sitting across from me and trying to choose the moves that are most unpleasant for him and his style.

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.

People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

When you have fun then you're more interested in learning.

Androids were never meant to dream.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

Story is the mother of us all, for we become who we say we are.

I want to avoid people, because there’s only one thing worse than being homeless, and that’s people who are not, knowing that you are.

Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me.

The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.

I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.

Dance is a profession with an expiration date for many people.

Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.

I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.