When I was 16, the guest speaker was King. And I was completely overwhelmed because I had been studying nonviolence, talking about it, reading about it, but here it was happening, here it was people boycotting the buses and people on the streets and taking risks, which I think was the key.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

The search is in the doing.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

If you swing both ways, you really swing. I just figure you double your pleasure.

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

"Nasty Man" isn't a laughing matter, but you have to laugh anyway. The song, itself, becomes something of a laughing matter because we'd go crazy if we didn't keep laughing.