I wish [my wife] would [work] because - especially now the kind of - I mean, honesty is hardly the word. She writes with a ferocity of clarity that - nobody else around has now.

I guess I haven't talked to Bob Dylan since before then [interview to Rolling Stones]. I follow his career.

Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].

Malcolm X made it very clear that if somebody goes after you - whether it's cops or not - you have to defend yourself. But he was not an advocate for violence the way the Black Panthers were.

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

Fortunately most of the people who were involved in anti-Vietnam activity did not con themselves into being like the violent people they didn't want.

Max Askeli was a very courageous, principled man up to a point. He had left Italy before he was thrown in jail by [Francesco] Mussolini.