[Bill Shawn] had always been in The New Yorker immaculately dressed - quietly, immaculately dressed, very soft-spoken. On the phone I could hardly hear him sometimes.

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.

At least they [people] showed the world we could elect a black president.

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

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

[Barack Obama] is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally.

The book that really, really shaped my politics and has forever is Arthur Koestler's "Darkness at Noon," which is a novel based on terrible fact about what it was like in Russia during Stalin's time when people actually believed that to get to the point where the Proletariat would triumph, anything that was necessary to be done should be done; the means didn't count.