Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.

[John] McCarthy's regime was ended by Senators who realized that he had gone too far. What we have now may be more insidious.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

Max Askeli was a very courageous, principled man up to a point. He had left Italy before he was thrown in jail by [Francesco] Mussolini.

I read like everybody - like every other writer.

I went to a lecture of [Arthur Koestler ] once, I never met him.

The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.