I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.

You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one

In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language.

If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.

Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine

Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent

To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'

Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.

Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!

Some Christians say god is the source of morality, these people have clearly never read the bible.

I have a handful of really close relationships in my life and I depend on those people heavily to carry me through and to help me stay steady.

Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.

I have retired but only in body. Spiritually, I still feel able.

There's just so much stuff that sounds like Flying Lotus now - I really like what he does, but I don't want to be like him. The new stuff is more experimental.

I have never really cooked, don't know how to use my dishwasher, and subsist mainly on prepared deli takeout. I don't even eat in restaurants much.

I can't believe that person on the television is really me.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

I know I work quite hard at making people like me.

There's something in a flying horse, There's something in a huge balloon.