I once did a - the first piece on Malcolm X that anyone had ever seen in the - white press.

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.

I write--because I must write.

...because you are young and you live in a confusing world of gray shades where compromises are easy and often."Keep you heart right.

There is a tidal wave of ignorance, Mma Ramotswe. It is a great tidal wave and it will drown all of us if we are not careful.

I keep people alive every day, and right now, the person I’m trying to keep alive is you. Will you let me?

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

When you reminisce aren't the times that someone's forcing you to reminisce. You reminisce other times in your life.

Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me.

The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.

I turned down Prince William's invitation for me to sing at his birthday bash because he was spearing animals in Africa and bringing publicity to it, and I thought that was pretty disgusting!

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.