I live in the Village right near NYU, which is taking over most of the Village. I've lived there for most of my time in New York. One of the things I like about the Village is, it's considered the kind of area where you can't have skyscrapers or, actually, many tall buildings. So you can see the sky which, I think, is a benefit.

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

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

I went to the library as soon as I could walk. So the training came from reading all kinds of people, from fairy tales and later on to - I don't know why - Schweitz's "Life of Christ."

I'd pick - my father would bring home about six newspapers. We had 10 in Boston at the time.

I guess you'd say, including the - what I just spoke about, the learning that liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be.

[Barack Obama to be] much worse [than George W. Bush].