Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.

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

This 1965. We went to trial on our city. We were obviously borrowing tactics and strategy from the Black freedom movement, and we were echoing their approach to things.

Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.

What was on the agenda was school and social life and those kinds of things. So I was the middle of five kids. So I had the great advantage of being able to play up to the older kids and play down to the younger kids and I think that's part of what propelled me to become a teacher at some point in my life. But it was a comfortable childhood. It was a privileged childhood.

Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961.

Every relationship is an experiment and what one learns from it is so fascinating.