The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.

I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail.

I have a big mouth, and I never met a petition I didn't like, so of course in the McCarthy days I got in trouble.

I never drove a car. I'm hopeless that way. I press the wrong buttons on the tape recorder. But if the person I'm interviewing helps me out, that person feels needed. People need to feel needed.

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

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

Last year I picked up the New York Times and there was a story about a kid from Dartmouth who was bragging that he never left his room, and made dates and ordered pizza with his computer. The piece de resistance of this story was that he had two roommates, and he was proud of the fact that he only talked to them by computer.