And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government.

The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away men, women, and children.

Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

It's all like an ocean!" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane.

Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.