A.J.[Muste] died in the late '60s, I think. He was 81, something like that.

In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist.

In the recent Virginia election, the black vote diminished. Now why was that? I think a lot of black folks are wondering what this guy is really going to do, not only for them but for the country. If the country is injured, they will be injured. That may be sinking in.

We disagree heavily on abortion [with Margot Hentoff].

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

[My wife] has some investments and stuff.

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.