I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
“You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.”
“I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book.”