The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States.

I was never invited to the White House.

FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.

There's no luck involved in chess. You just have to work at it.

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

Nothing is so healing as the human touch.

Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got my address. She was in a crowd watching me play. She says when I left there the stars fell out of the sky over Yugoslavia, or something like that.