We've learned a lot from the great psychologists. Wilhelm Reich wrote about the relationship between fascism and sexual repression. Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling, "support" groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people "share" and "heal," the question, "What for?", "What now?" is no longer asked.

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.

In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded - here I am speaking of the U.S. - while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school, there is already a gap between those with education and those without. Those with educational privilege can be seen as arrogant, remote, alien - and very often they believe themselves superior.

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.