You can't avoid mistakes and bad luck.

You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one

In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language.

If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.

Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.

There are two types of sacrifices: correct ones and mine

Later, I began to succeed in decisive games. Perhaps because I realized a very simple truth: not only was I worried, but also my opponent

To play for a draw (at any rate with White) is to some degree a crime against chess.

When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'

Of course, errors are not good for a chess game, but errors are unavoidable and in any case, a game without ant errors, or as they say 'flawless game' is colorless.

Fischer is Fischer, but a knight is a knight!

Mercy ministry always comes down to this: you can help, but only Jesus can heal.

Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

Life is Quicker Than a Blink of an Eye

When you're making a film, you have an obligation to fill the frame with life.

...I'm not going to be able to make things that I can call Kanye West just by making T-shirts.

I look at being older and gaining wisdom. I've learned to stay fit and healthy. I accept my body, my life, and my circumstances.

The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.

Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.