I've been reading since I could read, which was about four or five years old.

At the time there was a hospital strike in New York and the Catholic hospitals were part of a general consortium, and the head of the consortium had decided that they were finally going to replace some of the striking workers. And I hear [John] O'Connor yelling, `Over my dead body will you replace any of those workers! They have a right to strike.' So I figured, `This is interesting.'

[George W.] Bush was led astray and we were led astray.

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

I got Joan Baez to talk and Alan Ginsberg and some of the guys in the band. And by the end of the piece, another emissary came and said, `Bob [Dylan] is willing to speak to you now.' And I said with great pleasure, `No, thanks. The piece is over.'

The second wife [Trudi Bernstein] - the best part of that union, our two daughters, and that lasted about five years.

I met [my wife Margot] on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago.