I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real

Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.

Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation.

When I put the plate down, you don't hear a sound. When I pick up a glass, I want it to be just right. When someone says, "How come you're just a waitress?" I say, "Don't you think you deserve being served by me?"

I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.

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 want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.