I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.

I know people who have all the will in the world, but still can't play good chess.

It's pretty tough because of all the tension and all the concentration, sitting there hour after hour. It's...exhausting.

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

Go to work on an egg.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

My books I'd fain cast off, I cannot read, 'Twixt every page my thoughts go stray at large Down in the meadow, where is richer feed, And will not mind to hit t…