I've always been amused by [Bob] Dylan; I don't think he's been amused by me.

There are enough people who are starting to be actively involved that we can turn things around. And we need to encourage others to become involved.

[My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.

After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press conferences that `Bill Shawn will stay here as long as he wants to be here.' Well, he wanted to be here until he died, but he wasn't allowed to.

The [George W.] Bush administration would go into court on any kind of a case that they thought might embarrass them and would argue that it was a state secret and the case should not be continued.[Barack] Obama is doing the same thing, even though he promised not to.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

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.