If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

If your opponent offers you a draw, try to work out why he thinks he's worse off

I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.

A good sacrifice is one that is not necessarily sound but leaves your opponent dazed and confused.

Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.

I play way too much blitz chess. It rots the brain just as surely as alcohol.

Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.

Surely, serious problems can't be solved just by talking about them.

Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.

Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.

We expect God to be an angry father who demands justice, but through Jesus, He gives us love and grace when we don't deserve it.

The Western world’s sole objective seems to be success, status, security, self-indulgence, pleasure, and comfort.

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.

I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.

Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.

I love live theater; I like the relationship between the show and the audience. That's my comfort zone, but more than anything, it's what makes me happy.

The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.

Donald Trump is going to speak the truth to the American people.

I love being verbal in films.