The second wife [Trudi Bernstein] - the best part of that union, our two daughters, and that lasted about five years.

I guess I haven't talked to Bob Dylan since before then [interview to Rolling Stones]. I follow his career.

I am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.

We disagree heavily on abortion [with Margot Hentoff].

I felt better about myself that I did it [calling Max Askeli Commander Askeli], rather than have - rather than thinking it and not writing it for being afraid of what might happen to me.

I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She writes with a ferocity of clarity that - nobody else around has now.

The death panel issue arose with Tom Daschle, who was originally going to be the Health Czar. Daschle became enamored with the British system and wrote a book about health care, which influenced President [Barack] Obama.