William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected enormously because of what he did, - what the magazine was about.

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.

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

We are Love. We are lovable. We are loved. We Love.

Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.

It takes a great client to create great architecture.

But I begin to think the chief difficulty in writing a book must be to keep out what does not belong to it.

I pursue no intentions, no directions; I have no program, no style and no mission.

Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Brexit is the people of Britain who are fed up with the European Union dominating their lives, and they want accountability.

The 60s undoubtedly were the most turbulent years of the century.