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.

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

The need for a pro-life point of view undergirds everything you do.

Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.

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.

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.

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