"I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it."

“Place the contents of the Chess box in a hat, shake them up vigorously, pour them on the board from a height of two feet, and you get the style of Steinitz”

“Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation.”

“Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.”

“You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.”

“Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.”

“Whoever has the power to label others as evil is automatically, or reflexively, the good person. Good people label bad people as evil. And once you do that, then it demonizes them. You don't negotiate with evil. You don't sit down at the table with the devil and say, "Okay, let's work this out." What you want to do is destroy evil. Every Catholic kid every night says, or should say, "Lead us not into temptation, deliver us from evil." And so you've got to go to God to help you deal with evil rather than your State Department or your negotiators.”

“On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war.”

“I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.”