My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand 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.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

When someone wants to lose weight, they will do whatever it takes. They can’t do it for anyone else but themselves. It has to be for them alone. Without that understanding, they will fail.

I was taught to work hard and to be honest, and that's what I try to do, so that's it.

Yes, there is weeping, even in heaven, but it is for those who are still crawling on the earth.

Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you've got

If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably.

I was brought up to understand that we are all here on planet earth together.