Throughout [Barack] Obama's career, he promised to limit the state secrets doctrine which the Bush-Cheney administration had abused enormously.

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.

A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

You are connected to something very much larger than yourself. And that's a beautiful thing.

The greatest reward for a student is not a good grade. It is the willingness of his teacher to listen to him.

Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.

Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.

Camping is something I've done all my life.