Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth.

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.

It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on the brink of disaster.

At the end of the day, it's all about money.

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.

Search for truth, not for meaning. Meaning comes from the perspective of a person who interprets the truth.

I don't think you're dying, " I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer.He smiled. Gallows humor.

It's sad how people want to see us females go against each other. Never been for that. Never will.

a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's there for.

I do lots of weird voices and I kind of act out my raps. That's something that's always been in me.

Click. Boom. Amazing!

I also have experience working with American producer Roger Corman who knows a lot of secrets in making movies look bigger than their budget.