I don't believe in psychology.

Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.

She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.

I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.

Nothing is so healing as the human touch.

Vacations are designed to refresh the outlook of everyone. No matter how tired they may be when they return to work, vacationers have been refreshed emotionally and intellectually. Their effectiveness in their job has probably improved, and they are, generally speaking, better employees for the time off.

I'd like to travel around, be an international playboy. They have all that money; they could really do it right. Look at (Errol) Flynn.