I wasn't that passionate about it [the radical counterculture]. I agreed with it, but at the political demonstrations I would get very nervous when people started chanting in unison. I didn't like that. I usually disliked those smash-the-state kind of guys, even though I agreed politically with them. I took LSD, I said groovy and far-out, but I was kind of a detached observer.

"R. Crumb, The Art of Comics No. 1", The Paris Review, Summer 2010, No. 193.