I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.

The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions.

I think it's almost definite that the game is a draw theoretically.

Chess is war over the board. The object is to crush the opponents mind.

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.

I don't care! I don't have to show anybody my games just because they're a big shot!

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