There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets.

Now, I feel that if somebody looks through all the numbers through all those years, they will find one for Julius Rosenberg, and it is worth finding if it is such an important issue.

If the English want a king, it is their business. If the Russians want communism, it is their business. If the Americans want our form of government, it is our business.

My opinion was that if we had a common enemy we should get together commonly.

I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want.

First of all, I am not an expert on matters on different economic systems, but in my normal social intercourse with my friends we discussed matters like that.

I am in favor, heartily in favor, of our Constitution and Bill of Rights and I owe my allegiance to my country at all times.

There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance.

People don't always need a name.

When in doubt as to what you should do, err on the side of 'giving.

Nothing is really 'safe'.

The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.

Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you get it exactly right.

I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.

My writing habits are pretty static. I get up every morning between 6 and 7 am, grab a cup of coffee, say a few prayers, and go downstairs to my office and start writing.

When a cow lives with the butcher, sooner or later he gets eaten unless he helps the other cows off to their slaughter. (Nick)

Audacity is the currency for authoritarians.

I'm pretty sure I ate ants in Mexico.