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

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.

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

I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard of Vietnam until I was in the merchant marines in constitution square in Athens, and I picked up the New York Herald or the International Herald Tribune and there was my first introduction of the word Vietnam.

Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.

[Students for a Democratic Society] was on many campuses and it was a powerful organization. It was founded by Tom Hayden, who passed away very recently. It was one of the founders of SDS and that chief writer of the Port Huron Statement, which is still worth reading. It's kind of the Bernie Sanders campaign document in a funny way.

I'm different in the sense that every minute of every day, I change. I'm thinking. But the basic principles that have powered me forward are still there. They're not different.