The need for education for the individual student should be recognized... home, neighborhood. But instead of that, we have the future being determined by standardized testing.

[I wanted] to play the clarinet well so I could be in Duke Ellington's band, but that's now impossible.

I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. That book had a number of sort of rites of passage for me.

There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to become involved.

[Bill Clinton] has called for expanded wiretaps for the FBI.

Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].

My contact with [Cato] was strange. They're ideologues, like Trotskyites. All questions must be seen and solved within the true faith of libertarianism, the idea of minimal government. And like Trotskyites, the guys from Cato can talk you to death.