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.

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.

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.

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?

I have always pictured accupuncture like falling into a box of sewing needles, and then standing up refreshed and free of pain.

Only locks in life are what you think you know, but don’t. Accept your ignorance and try something new.

I think I'm cool. That's all that matters.

Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.

If you sleep,you will miss the OPPORTUNITY to be successful

Beer is amazing. Nutritional. Medicinal. A beverage, but also a meal.

There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.

The only question is how to make love stay.