I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

I mean the prime case that you can look at is Martin Luther King, who was only an activist for 13 years. But every year, he became deeper, more concerned, connecting more issues.

The truth is that the antiwar movement was powered by the working class. The students were the ones that got the media and so forth, but it was the soldiers on the ground who really energized the antiwar movement in the late Sixties.

I more or less shared the view that life should be lived.

I found the place where I was beaten bloody forty years earlier and dragged to jail and that made me cry. When the family came out, that made me cry, and the reason I had a hard time leaving Grant Park was that to see a million people like that, feeling the way that million people felt, was so exhilarating.

Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism.

The nice thing about being detained in Canada is it's like being in a Days Inn; it's very clean and very nice.