[gwern]

> Like nothing Miles said entered the reporter's skull.

> I know this interview is from 1962, but are you fucking kidding me?

Commenters might be interested to know that the interviewer in question was Alex Haley. I don't know why OP's version leaves that out.

(Haley did several Playboy interviews, including that with the Klansman; all that I have read thus far have been worth reading.)