A reporter is never put off by somebody not wanting to be interviewed.

I am against anybody who uses violence to make their points.

I am optimistic. I have to be optimistic.

The main jobs would be The New Yorker, The Village Voice, The Washington Post and - I'm thinking of The Reporter when Max Askeli was there, but I got fired from The Reporter.

[Barack] Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to.

I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.

I have I guess 3 passions. One is the Constitution. The other is jazz and the other is being an atheist prolifer which, of course, gets me in a lot of trouble - all of which combines into free expression.