[Bill Clinton] has called for expanded wiretaps for the FBI.

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].

Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.

I told [a big investor in The New Yorker] - I was complaining the way writers complain.I said`[Bill Shawn] pays very well, but a lot of my pieces don't get in,' and that was true of most of the writers there.But he pays you for them, that was very nice of him. This guy didn't think it was very nice. He figured, `Oh, my God, that's more of my investment gone,' and paying money to writers for not printing them. That became, apparently, one of his weapons against Shawn when he - in the corporate skirmishes that went on. It was a bad mistake on my part.

In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

The Voice has been politically correct in many of its aspects since before that term was ever used.