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

I don't think [Bill Clinton] does anything - I don't think it's ill will. I don't think he's evil in the sense that he hates the Bill of Rights. He does what he figures will help him politically.

In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia

Bob Dylan was really mad with my wife. I had asked by Rolling Stone - the only assignment I ever had for them - to do a story on the Rolling Thunder Review, which was Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg, Joan Baez and a host of stars. My wife, some weeks before, had written in The New York Times that The Kid wasn't The Kid anymore and he wasn't all that winning anymore.

I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.

I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people.

You have an electorate [in America] that wants to see people who are not tough on crime.