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.

Carl Armstrong was one of those people in the anti-war years who had been so convinced of the righteousness of their cause that he and some friends decided they would blow up a building at the University of Wisconsin, in which they said research was being done to help the war against the Vietnamese. What they blew up at three or four in the morning was a young scientist, who was married and had a couple of kids, who wasn't working on war stuff at all. And he was killed.

I got Joan Baez to talk and Alan Ginsberg and some of the guys in the band. And by the end of the piece, another emissary came and said, `Bob [Dylan] is willing to speak to you now.' And I said with great pleasure, `No, thanks. The piece is over.'

A.J.[Muste] died in the late '60s, I think. He was 81, something like that.

I went to school at a place that also shaped my life, Boston Latin School.

Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.

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