Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].

I don't like to feel intimidated by where I make a living.

[Barack] Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

I know [Arthur Koestler] fought in the Spanish Civil War. He was in prison, I think, in Spain and in Russia. He came to the United States; that's when I saw him in the mid-1940s.

[My wife] has some investments and stuff.

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.