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.

Now my only income is a few royalty cheques from my books.

The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.

My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration

Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all

Yeah, I used to dress badly until I was about sixteen. But people just didn't seem to have enough respect for me, you know And I didn't like that, so I decided I'd have to show them they weren't any better than me, you know? They were sort of priding themselves. They would say, 'He beat us at chess, but he's still just an uncouth kid.' So I decided to dress up.

To get squares you have to give up squares.