I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I guess, in Boston through the time when I finally left to come to New York. That book had a number of sort of rites of passage for me.

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

However, I never thought that [George W.] Bush himself was, in any sense, "evil."

My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever.

We are going to have a long period where people are accustomed or conditioned to what's going on now with the raping of the Fourth Amendment.

I write a syndicated column for The Washington Post that goes to about 200, 250 papers.

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.