As a younger person you can come in through many, many gateways. It's like some huge Mandela. You can enter into this and get refreshed.

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.

Alcoholism is a choice... not a life sentence.

Sometimes Jonathan [Powell] and myself would go to Tony [Blair] and ask him if he was absolutely sure about this or that. That was our job. But ultimately it was his decision.

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

Live by faith. Live out loud. And never stop believing God-day by day.

I'm scared of slipping up, of just doing a joke that makes me laugh.

Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

When you feel moved by the story, you want to tell that story.

In terms of merit, sports has mathematical statistics. That's how you know who the best player is.

The voice of Christ is so powerful that it awakens the spiritually dead in the grave of sin to hear it and live.