I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.

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."

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

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.

But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

The only principle of Success in Life :"You must be present to win.

You can never please everybody, don't even try.

The old order changes yielding place to new.

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

Faith is expectancy. You do not receive what you want; you do not receive what you pray for, not even what you say you have faith in. You will always receive what you actually expect.

To be a role model is not something you choose, it is chosen for you and once it is you must accept the responsibility bestowed upon you

Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.

One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role

Only longing can fill with more of itself.