But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

You can be disappointed but only if you thought [Barack Obama] was something that he said he wasn't!

To be a human being is to suffer. But it's the unnecessary suffering, it's the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped.

Terrorists destroy randomly.

If you read the literature of Soviet Communism, you see a dogma that's chilling. On the other hand, if you read the literature of anti-communism, it's every bit as dogmatic.

Living in a bubble as I said in a featherbed of privilege. That's why leaving home, leaving the prep school and going to the University of Michigan in the early '60s was a moment of awakening and to go to a place like Michigan and to see suddenly a world in flames and the injustices all around was quite a wake up call. I lasted a year and a half at Michigan before I dropped out and joined the merchant marines and I was a merchant marine for my sophomore year then I came back to Michigan.

I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.