[Margot Hentoff] stopped [writing]. She decided that she had nothing more to say. And yet, every day, she has a whole lot to say, and I wish she'd write it down.

Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.

Clay Felker was then - he had - to his credit, he had created New York Magazine, which was the first of the city magazines that covered the city and gave all kinds of advice and all that sort of stuff. And there were copies all over the country by the time he left. He had, however, a view of journalism that was very much, I must say, like Tina Brown's at The New Yorker. You hit 'em hard, fast, give 'em something to talk about the day after the paper comes out, as contrasted with William Shawn, who gave them something to talk about two or three years from then.

I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.

[Barack Obama's ] only principle is his own aggrandizement. This is a very dangerous mindset for a president to have.

The Fourth Amendment is on life support and the chief agent of that is the National Security Agency.

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