The United States is an illegitimate country, just like Israel. It has no right to exist. That country belongs to the Red man, the American Indian... It's actually a shame to be a so-called American, because everybody living there is a usurper, an invader taking part in this crime, which is to rob the land, rob the country and kill all the American Indians.

I don't keep any close friends. I don't keep any secrets. I don't need friends. I just tell everybody everything, that's all.

She and I just don't see eye to eye together. She's a square. She keeps telling me that I'm too interested in chess, that I should get friends outside of chess, you can't make a living from chess, that I should finish high school and all that nonsense. She keeps in my hair and I don't like people in my hair, you know, so I had to get rid of her.

When I won the World Championship in '72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.

Concentrate on material gains. Whatever your opponent gives you take, unless you see a good reason not to.

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

My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.