Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.

Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill.

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

The atmosphere was wide open in those circles that we traveled in.

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

A blank cheque kills creativity.

A visionary company is one which is seen growing in a consistent pattern by being goal oriented driven by a vision and a mission

I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.

I'm always leaving, but I never have anywhere to go.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.

In contrast to my husband, I can pronounce the word nuclear.

We need love - an awesome love grounded in the evolutionary potential for life on Earth - to become the organizing principle for human society.

People are impressed with me - because I can sleep for just 45 minutes - I'm used to it.

I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness.