I like to make them squirm.

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

You are not who you think.You're not even the thinker.You are the one conscious of the thought.

I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.

Yeah. I have been with David Furnish for eight years, now.

The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.

Don't follow your dream - lead it!

You play to win the game.

We invent what we love and what we fear.

There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have one good idea.

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.

Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.