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Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividing line - at least for the Western World - between the comfortable security of the 19th century and the instability and flux of our own time.

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

It became obvious to me that the generation who changed the world were my parents' generation, and not only in terms of the Second World War, but if you look at all the social legislation of the '60s - abortion, homosexual law reform, equal pay - it wasn't done by my generation; it was done by people who were adults.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

My generation was the tail end of the Cold War.

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.

My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.

When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that if we don't teach our kids a better way of relating to their fellow human beings, the very future of humanity on the planet is in jeopardy.