The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.

The people in Coming of Age were far less curmudgeonly than you would think. The greater percentage said that without the young we'd be lost. One woman, a former Southern belle, now 87, a philanthropist, says, "Well, these young, their history's been stolen from them. And what have we done to make them respect us?"

All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?

I have a big mouth, and I never met a petition I didn't like, so of course in the McCarthy days I got in trouble.

When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.