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Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

Not surprisingly, my parents' generation did everything they could to make life easier for their own children. Was that good for us? I wonder. It certainly didn't do us any good from a cultural point of view. I'm struck by how few boomers have embraced adult culture in middle age.

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.

My generation has left the globe in a mess.

It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.

I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.

My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.