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.

Bill Clinton outshines John Adams in that regard.

[Margot Hentoff] was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.

I grew up in a household in which we had a clock that we won at Revere Beach during the Depression - one of those brass clocks that didn't work - but it showed Franklin D. Roosevelt standing at the wheel of the New Deal.

Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.

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

Being pro-life is an essential part of being a writer.