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I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.

When the Left agitates over government policies, it's considered righteous anger. When the Right - and much of the center - agitate, it's painted as the rantings of the criminally and violently insane.

In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?

With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies.

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.