I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.

I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.

Money is a way of creating scarcity.

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.