"The sixties get all the credit for a time of social change and experimentation and so on...To me, it was really the '70s that were the most liberated, the most willing to experiment decade in American history.... That produced a lot of excess, a lot of things that were easily mocked, but I think it was a sincere, genuine revolutionary impulse that was being acted out in all kinds of ways, both sublime and ridiculous." - Michael Chabon