When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.

Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.

All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?

I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

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.

I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.