The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life.

Killing is an excellent way of dealing with a hostility problem.

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

There's nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you.

Literature is the power of fiction itself: not making a claim about what the world is, but about the imagination of a possible world.

I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class

You can't say it wasn't interesting.

The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly high mission.

When you nurse a grudge it is not good for your health.

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low?

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.