The winner is the one who makes the next-to-last mistake.

Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.

I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people.

No one ever won a game by resigning.

Seize the outpost K5 with your knight, and you can go to sleep. Checkmate will come by itself.

The ability to create and to control the tension of battle is perhaps the principal attainment of the great player.

To avoid losing a piece, many a person has lost the game

A Chess game is divided into three stages: the first, when you hope you have the advantage, the second when you believe you have an advantage, and the third... when you know you're going to lose!

The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing; the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing

The mistakes are there, waiting to be made

A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.

Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.

There buds the promise of celestial worth.

My songs are my hookers. I can't worry about how they are going to be treated; they just need to bring home the bacon.

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.

SeLF censorsHIP? Not my strong suit...I dont want to be a total d o u c h e b a g , but a little bit of one.

Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.

Democracy is not a commodity for import and export.

One must be chary of words because they turn into cages.