In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.

My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.

But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie.

From the time I was little, I'd been kind of freaked out by the whole deal with large groups of people. And even moderate - sized groups of people. It's always made me very uncomfortable. It's such a strange phenomenon, what happens to people when they're all moving in the same direction, all chanting the same tune, the same line of slogans or something. That stuff always seems very alien and bizarre to me, and kind of scary.

Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.