[Arthur Koestler] wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".

A.J.[Muste] died in the late '60s, I think. He was 81, something like that.

I've never met anybody quite like [Bill Shawn]. He created - and I'm sure it was conscious - an aura about him of quietude.

At the time there was a hospital strike in New York and the Catholic hospitals were part of a general consortium, and the head of the consortium had decided that they were finally going to replace some of the striking workers. And I hear [John] O'Connor yelling, `Over my dead body will you replace any of those workers! They have a right to strike.' So I figured, `This is interesting.'

Inside that quietude there was the firmest of wills. [Bill Shawn] knew exactly what he wanted to do.

You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.

The present Stimulus Bill sets up the equivalent commission in the United States similar to that which is in England.