I still have the actor's disease. I always think I'll never get another job.

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.

My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.

I can't say I was unhappy as a child actor in films. I had a particularly wonderful time.

But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

It cannot be Pakistan of Quaid and Iqbal where children of the elite study in prestigious educational institutions while those of resourceless segments deprived of education due to difficulties.

Perhaps I was always intensely curious, but my Columbia education gave me a framework and a perspective to investigate new things - things that could be put into a historical and philosophical lineage.