For the next century, we've got to put together what we so carelessly tore apart with so little concern for those who were gonna follow us. ... You've got to sound off.

Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got something to pass on. There'll be nobody like you ever again. Make the most of every molecule you've got as long as you've got a second to go.

Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.

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.

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

'Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.

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.