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

I say personally because I am 84 years old, and [Barack Obama's] is the first administration that has scared me in terms of my lifespan.

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

Inside that quietude there was the firmest of wills. [Bill Shawn] knew exactly what he wanted to do.

That term was used with hyperbole about the parts of the health care bill where doctors are mandated, if people are on Medicare and of a certain age or in serious physical condition, to counsel them on their end-of-life alternatives. I don't believe that was a death panel.

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

I knew A.J. Muste very well. I tried for a while to be like he was, and that is a total pacifist. But then Margot [my wife] hit me hard in the stomach one day to prove to me that I wasn't as perfect a pacifist as I thought I was.