As Harry Blackmun said when he wrote Roe v. Wade, 'Once a child is born, the child has basic constitutional rights: due process, equal protection of the laws.'

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lost

The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.

I like really stupid comedies.

We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.

If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?

Can you let go of words and ideas, attitudes and expectations? If so, then the Tao will loom into view.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

I don't go for the so-called "intimate" stuff. Column items that report: "Minerva Ferncroft sleeps in pink dusting powder between puce-colored sheets in a heart-shaped bed." It leaves me cold.

The ability to make and keep promises is the key aspect to trust in a relationship.