Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.

Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question.

In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.

Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.