The king pawn and the queen pawn are the only ones to be moved in the early part of the game.

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.

A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror

Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

A sacrifice is best refuted by accepting it

Only the player with the initiative has the right to attack

The King is a fighting piece. Use it!

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.

In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.

I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth.

Let the mind help us to get there, after we have decided with our heart. Let the mind follow us, rather than lead us.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension.

No worry before its time.

We were watching bands like the Ramones and Blondie and other bands beginning to ignite.

I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.

That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more.

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.

If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.