[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.

What's wrong with it is, it lowers, to say the least, the credibility of the magazine. And if I were writing for [The New Republic ], I would feel diminished because the owner had done such a thing [fire a journalist].

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

You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.

If the American people have their health care paid for by the government, depending on their age and their condition, they will be subject to a health commission just like in England which will decide if their lives are worth living much longer.