The whole politically correct movement, if it - if that's what it is, was spawned by liberals. So I try to avoid categorizing myself.

A particular moment - and I'm not, to this day, quite sure how I feel about it - I had always wanted to be in the law books - you know, Hentoff vs. something or other.

Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it.

[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.

Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.

Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war period and the civil rights period.

He - A.J.[Muste] never got much credit, never got much attention. For example, I wrote a biography of him and nobody ever heard of it.