You know you're going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose -on playing against Fischer

Chess is a game of bad moves.

Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.

Chess is 99 percent calculation.

Failing to open the center at the right moment - a common error by White in the Exchange Lopez - can allow Black an excellent game.

The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop.

Drawing and painting is like a quickie in bed. Were as novel writing is a long term relationship, much more fulling.

J.R.R. Tolkien, said a student, "could turn a lecture room into a mead hall in which he was the bard and we were the feasting, listening guests.

There is a certain physiognomy in manners.

No institution will go through fundamental change unless it believes it is in deep trouble and needs to do something different to survive.

From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

Advertising is fundamental to the accessibility, affordability and dynamism of the internet, helping to pay for much of the content and services we all enjoy and use for free.

I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.