The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive.

Often, in the Ruy Lopez, one must be patient, wait and carry on a lengthy and wearisome struggle.

I still hope to kill Fischer

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

After I won the title, I was confronted with the real world. People do not behave naturally anymore - hypocrisy is everywhere.

I also follow chess on the Internet, where Kasparov's site is very interesting.

I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values, critical exchange and civic literacy.

Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!

[Evolution Theory] is the motivating factor for guys like Hitler and Stalin and George Bush, by the way, who is a Satan worshipper, like we don't know that.

Momma gettin' older feelin' pains In her shoulder. I gotta stay focused and remain a little soldier.

Until our mission becomes our obsession, we'll be chained to the realm of average.

The guitar part is the pivot of everything we do, so if you change the guitar part you no longer have what it is.

Susan is just great. I know I'm biased, but she's a great actress.