Jonathan Lethem Quotes

If you keep on pushing someone, eventually you push them too far.

Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position

There are fixed rules in chess, and no one knows how the game will end.

Capture of the adverse King is the ultimate but not the first object of the game

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.

Don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

The power of hanging Pawns is based precisely in their Mobility, in their Ability to create acute situations instantly.

The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish.

He who shoots first laughs last.

All I ever want to do is just play chess.

It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.

I don't know if people know this but I am pretty good at chess. I was always on the chess team at school when I was younger.

Dude, you tried to slice my you-know-what's off!" Thomas laughed, something that he hadn't done in a long time. He welcomed it happily. "Too bad I didn't. Could've saved the world from future little Minhos.

Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

Patzer sees a check, gives a check.

Anyone in this world can have the power of life and death over someone else. It's horrible, but true. All you need to do is take it. And once you have -- there is no going back. (The Killer's Cousin)

Americans really don't know much about chess. But I think when I beat Spassky, that Americans will take a greater interest in chess. Americans like winners.

In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.

Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.

Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?

You're not getting this back you know. Consider it an asshole tax.

Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!

No matter what the name, we're all the same pieces in one big chess game.