Om 68

"You could stride sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing it was right, that we were winning...
And that, I think, was the handle-that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean of military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting-our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave....
So now, less then five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark-that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back."

Om historia

"History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of 'history' it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understand at the time-and which never explain, in retrospect, what really happened."