The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.

I'm called an oral historian, which is something of a joke. Oral history was here long before the pen, long before Gutenberg and the printing press. The difference is I have a tape recorder in my hand.

I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew.