I often play a move I know how to refute.

Chess is a beautiful mistress.

A gambit never becomes sheer routine as long as you fear you may lose the king and pawn ending!

A chess player never has a heart attack in a good position.

Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.

I don't care very much for miniatures. I don't try to beat my opponents quickly because if they are strong, I think I should respect them. It is too risky to play sharply to beat them in 20 moves.

A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of course, to the fear-and-laziness draws.

The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much.

The stomach is an essential part of the Chess master

In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed.

Maybe we ran out of words, maybe we don't know what to say, maybe we both want to go our separate ways, maybe we want to speak up but we're afraid. All I know is this feeling isn't fading away.

The gossip will kill your Great Grandmother.

Perseverance is the enemy of doubt.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

The world is being created every minute, and the world is falling to pieces every minute

Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to do something.

I have to rein myself in sometimes.

I had a dream that all the babies prevented by the pill showed up. They were mad.

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape