- Joan Didion: Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled. - Joan Didion, The White Album
- Charles Manson: If you wanna be free of all the bad experiences and inhibitions that are crushing you you have to imagine that you are making love to your daddy, okay?
- Patricia 'Katie' Krenwinkel: I had to make the decision that everything I had believed was now wrong. I would now have to be fully responsible for the damage, the wreckage and the horror. It is countless how many lives were shattered by the path of destruction that I was part of. And it all came from such a simple thing as just wanting to be loved.