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

Nothing is so healing as the human touch.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

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.

To get squares you have to give up squares.

Chess demands total concentration

If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.