You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.

If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians.

It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on the brink of disaster.

At the end of the day, it's all about money.

Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.

Women! Dressed to kill the woman in them.

We are well on our way to a unified theory of biology that will merge body and environment, brain and mind, genome and microbiome.

Thy word O Lord is my great hope.

Mausoleum n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its defects.

I am just trying to keep it real.

I didn't belong when I was in high school. Now people are trying to buy lips.

In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.