I came back to Ann Harbor, got caught up with people who were much more sophisticated than I, and it was an exciting time because my eyes were opening and that's always exciting and Michigan is the place where we had the first teach-in against the war.

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

The idea that teaching is somehow the delivery of the goods is such a misunderstanding of what actually goes on.

I was involved in the anti-war movement.

Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position.

I have an addiction to caffeine.

Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in Tunisia and Cairo. What they had in common was people who were told, and who believed inside themselves, that they were a certain way, and the society at large believed it.