The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.

It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

The only positive contribution to chess from Fischer in the last 20 years.

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness

The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

Chess you don't learn, chess you understand.

Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.

Those who think that it is easy to play chess are mistaken. During a game a player lives on his nerves, and at the same time he must be perfectly composed.

As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.

Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.

I don't study; I create.

I'm glad for the rain...It's good camouflage.

It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.

Enya assessed him like a woman would a piece of fine cloth. "Rugged land for a rugged man.

Knock out a small debt first so you get a quick win. Momentum is key.

Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.