It's perfectly within [Martin Peretz] rights [to fire a journalist]. It's a private - you know, th - it's not censorship. The First Amendment doesn't come into play because it's a private magazine.

I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that [Clay] Felker is destroying this paper. And I heard that he was about ready to fire me, but two other people on The Voice interceded and, fortunately, he had a very short attention span, so I wasn't fired.

[My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.

I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and the Sons of Liberty did in Boston was spread the word about the abuses of the British. They had Committees of Correspondence that got the word out to the colonies. We need Committees of Correspondence now, and we are getting them.

I've always been amused by [Bob] Dylan; I don't think he's been amused by me.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

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