The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.

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.

[Barack] Obama has little, if any, principles except to aggrandize and make himself more and more important.

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.

Allen Ginsberg was a remarkable guy. He was himself. He was an original.

I was in the back of the book [in the The Reporter] doing music.

My father was pretty independent. He was - he was arrested once in Nashville when he was on one of his sales trips because he had a black - guy to lunch. So that took a fair amount of courage at the time.