As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.

We can think for ourselves and we can awaken the world to a greater consciousness.

I took my vow to poetry; this is where I'm going to be. These are my people; this is my tribe. This is where I'm going to put my energy.

Our need to reimagine our world through the vibratory larynx, that's what matters. Re-awaken the world to itself. Through ideas, pictures, sounds. Hold the mirror up to "nature."

We need a world-wide Department of Peace.

A lot of my life has involved with helping create cultures that have as their basis this vision of the sharing, the partaking of a certain ethos together.

Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.

I was going to public school in the post-World War II, the grey doldrum years. But I was in this extraordinary environment of Manhattan, of Greenwich Village, of bohemian parents.

I was not ever hitchhiking alone. I've done solo train trips but I've never driven myself alone.

My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?

The path to marital bliss is to begin each day with a kiss.

Grow your love by donating to others everyday.

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

You have to try to push yourself to the limit. You can't worry about making a mistake. If you worry about it, you'll lose.

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

No one else, ever, will think you're great the way your mother does.

Happy is the soul that knows how to find Jesus in the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in all things!

If you are ready to die, then you are ready to live.

Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.