I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.

After visits to several Communist countries (USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Cuba), I feel strongly that most "revolutionary" types around the world don't realize the importance of freedom of the press and the air, a right to peaceably assemble and discuss anything, including the dangers of such discussions.

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.

The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

RULERS should be careful about what songs are allowed to be sung.

It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.