In a world as out of balance as this world, everyone can find something to do. And the question isn't can you do everything; the question is, can you do anything?

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

Education is the motor-force of revolution.

There are things about classic liberalism that obviously I'm drawn to and I bet all of you are as well. Those are things like liberty, freedom, the Bill of Rights. But the reason that I reject the label is that I grew up cutting my teeth against the liberals.

I dropped out in '64. And I came back to Michigan, in '65. In 1965, when I came back I had never heard of Vietnam.

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

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