We're going to raise a lost generation of children unless they are properly disciplined and properly spanked.

One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.

You are all a lost generation.

[with credit to Gertrude Stein]

Then we change our possy and lie down again to play cards. We know how to do that: to play cards, to swear, and to fight. Not much for twenty years;--and yet too much for twenty years.

...unlike the Lost Generation, which was occupied with the loss of faith, the Beat Generation is becoming more and more occupied with the need for it.

There's a certain steely resolve when you decide to live in a city and decide to raise children in the city. And if you're doing it properly, you have sort of a heightened awareness anyway.