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].

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.

[Margot Hentoff] stopped [writing]. She decided that she had nothing more to say. And yet, every day, she has a whole lot to say, and I wish she'd write it down.

[Barack Obama's ] only principle is his own aggrandizement. This is a very dangerous mindset for a president to have.

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. One was understanding and coping with anti-Semitism. Boston, at the time, was the most anti-Semitic city in the country. And I found out when I was an adolescent that you have to be crazy to go out after dark all by yourself; you'd get your head bashed in.

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

I'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time.