My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution, and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.

I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.

I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.

We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.