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

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

A.J. [Muste] was a - as he likes to say, a radical pacifist.

I guess you'd say, including the - what I just spoke about, the learning that liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be.

There wasn't much said, but I was thinking, perhaps unkindly - not unkindly,but on - inaccurately of Theodore Dreiser's "Carrie," when the main character in "Carrie" has been brought down by Carrie and his - he - dress is disheveled and all that sort of thing. And that's the last I ever saw of [Will Shawn].

I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people.

There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to become involved.