If you can integrate your life to have a kind of meditative practice that is considering 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."

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.

No true friendship takes account of credit and debt. It gives freely, without thought of compensation or reward.

Christ rises above all things.

I'm more of a comedian. I wouldn't mind being on SNL (Saturday Night Live). I think that would be cool.

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

My trouble is I analyze life instead of live it.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

What you have to assess is whether you have the will to fight.