When the ACLU took my case and we got a ruling I think, for the first time, they could - the Congress could put out the report internally but they couldn't put it out at taxpayers' expense around the country. And I felt odd about that because I, in a way, I was interfering with free speech, but then, you can't always win.

[Left] are very hesitant to criticize [Barack] Obama, but that is beginning to change.

[Margot Hentoff] stopped [writing]. She decided that she had nothing more to say. And yet, every day, she has a whole lot to say, and I wish she'd write it down.

I guess I haven't talked to Bob Dylan since before then [interview to Rolling Stones]. I follow his career.

I went to the library as soon as I could walk. So the training came from reading all kinds of people, from fairy tales and later on to - I don't know why - Schweitz's "Life of Christ."

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

I went to a lecture of [Arthur Koestler ] once, I never met him.