“In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?”

“You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."
Steve Martin”

“For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed.

The riddle does not exist.

If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.”

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”

“All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle… is another riddle.”

“The small red eyes regarded him, unblinking. “What would you give me for all the wisdom of the world?”
“Nothing.” He turned back to his work. “I have heard you know the answers to every riddle save one. That will be the one I need answering.””

“With his death, we have lost a very great chess genius whose like we'll never see again.”

“Football is like chess, only without the dice.”

“Most chess books only sell a few thousand copies, and a book titled something like “Women in Chess” would sell even fewer. The idea with this title was to spread the book outside the competitive chess world. I’m interested in attracting readers who love chess but play only casually, and feminists interested in male dominated fields.”

“Genius is a starry word; but if there ever was a chess player to whom that attribute applied, it was Paul Morphy.”