I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.

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

The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told and what we told ourselves we'd had to do. We had a majority. We were against the war and this created a crisis for democracy and a crisis for the antiwar movement.

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

I would say when I went to Michigan. It started. I got very very involved in civil rights in Ann Harbor right away. Picketing, something I never even knew existed.

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.

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.