Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care read more

Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for read more

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

. . . in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured read more

. . . in all our efforts to provide "advantages" we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history and possibly the unhappiest.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a read more

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.