Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.

It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity, imagination and personal computers. Above all, what you have as young people that's vitally needed to make social change, is impatience. You want it to happen now. There have to be enough people that say, ‘We want it now, in our lifetime.’ This is your moment. This is your opportunity. Be adventurists in the sense of being bold and daring. Be opportunists and seize this opportunity, this moment in history, to go out and save our country. It's your turn now.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.

There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!

Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.