The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Capablanca.

Every Chess master was once a beginner

The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly

If once a man delays castling and his king remains in the center, files will open up against him, bishops sweep the board, rooks will dominate the seventh rank, and pawns turn into queens.

On the chessboard, if nowhere else, justice does triumph.

Play the move that forces the win in the simplest way. Leave the brilliancies to Alekhine, Keres and Tal.

The best initial move for white is 1. P-K4.

Chess is not for the timid.

Alcohol was like a fun cousin I visited every once in a while but never planned a trip around.

Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.

For months I had been trying to be less myself.

I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper.

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

I've lived (in LA) for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't anymore.

I was doing an hour drama on television and a Jackie Chan movie in Toronto, so I was on a plane every three days.

It's two o'clock in the morning, they're not going to get any nooky anyway, so this one guy and the guy with the t-shirt guy started sniffing the girls panties.

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.