The best indicator of a Chess Player's form is his ability to sense the Climax of the game.

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.

A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo...

We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death.

We glorify God by living lives that honor Him.

I stand here waiting. To disappear or sing.

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.

When you're born in fire, smoke will never do.

I sit and feel lonely. Sitting and feeling lonely is something I am a spectacular success at. I can do it for hours. Everyone is good at something.

The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.