You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.

Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.

I breathed the air of deliverance through books, and through books I leapt over the walls of confinement.

There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.

I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.

I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person.