What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!
Planning anything is hopeless.
You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one
In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able to translate my thought processes into normal human language.
If you wait for luck to turn up, life becomes very boring.
It's funny, but many people don't understand why I draw so many games nowadays. They think my style must have changed but this is not the case at all. The answer to this drawing disease is that my favorite squares are e6, f7, g7 and h7 and everyone now knows this. They protect these squares not once but four times!
Just as one's imagination is stirred by a girl's smile, so is one's imagination stirred by the possibilities of chess.
As far as R&B, I listen to a lot of old school like the Temptations and Chris Brown.
I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.
Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
I know how to make films and now I'm able to make films with the resources and the tools that match my imagination, and what filmmaker doesn't want to do that? I feel very fortunate to have that. I don't take it for granted.