This sounds corny, but I once told a kid when I was in a the library conference, the best - not the best, what I really hope for is that someday 20, 30 years from now, some kid, 12-year-old, 15-year-old, in Des Moines will be going through the stacks, if they have stacks anymore - they probably won't - and find a book of mine and get something from it.

[Left] are very hesitant to criticize [Barack] Obama, but that is beginning to change.

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

William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected enormously because of what he did, - what the magazine was about.

The habeas corpus business, that's to show that he [Bill Clinton] is not tough on crime.

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

The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.