Aram Saroyan, summing up the Sixties

“We were young, we were arrogant, we were irreverent, we were foolish. But we were right,” Abbie Hoffman reflected in 1988. A generation born out of the Trojan Horse of the post-World War II American Empire, our power was, paradoxically, in our ambivalence about power. It was also in our numbers, and in the fact that our common ideals could foster friendship.

Aram Saroyan, Friends in the World: The Education of a Writer, Coffee House Press, 1992, p. 129.