Every life is different; being pro-life is not only about saving the fetus, being pro-life is about all the stages of life.

[Bill Shawn] didn't edit the writers very strongly, but he knew what he wanted.

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.

As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, `Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'

A good many people voted for [Barack] Obama, and I'm not only talking about the black vote. A lot of people voted for Obama because of our history of racial discrimination in this country.

My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever.

I read like everybody - like every other writer.