"As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men."

“My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people. Attitudes. My thoughts about the universe and simple things like that.”

“I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he is like an idiot savant, outside of chess he knows nothing.”

Source : Radio Interview, www.geocities.jp. July, 6 2001.

“In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.”

“One in three Canadian teens are bullied. That's nearly two million young Canadians who are teased and excluded. Nearly two million who are silenced in the classroom, losing out on their education.”

“In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.”

“I'm not Stravinsky, I never will be.”

“Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.”

“There's not anything, I don't think, that I can do or accomplish”