I like the moment when I break a man's ego.

Chess is a matter of delicate judgement, knowing when to punch and how to duck.

Nobody has single-handedly done more for the US image than me...

I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.

I don't like American girls. They're very conceited, you know. In Europe they're more pleasant.

But the thing that was great about Capablanca was that he really spoke his mind, he said what he believed was true, he said what he felt. He [Capablanca] wanted to change the rules [of chess] already, back in the twenties, because he said chess was getting played out. He was right. Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorisation and prearrangement. It's a terrible game now. Very uncreative.

You are never too old to play chess!