[Max Askeli] started this very good magazine [The Reporter]. In fact, Meg Greenfield, who's now the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, was one of the star reporters there.

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.

Oh, so there were angels and demons, but no vampires? No mysterious, super-hot bloodsuckers who would love you forever? Now that was totally unfair.

He had a prince's looks but a pirate's eyes.

Your reasoning is excellent, it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong.

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.

You are so beautiful, he mouthed. But of course she couldn’t see his lips. Guess he was going to have to show her.

Who conquers indolence conquers all other hereditary sins.

I am worried that the next generation will not be able to have a real conversation.

I'm not an anarchist, but I believe that people don't want the royal family - the so-called royal family.