Connection to Buddhism is strand in my life.

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.

I think the very word stalking implies that you're not supposed to like it. Otherwise, it would be called 'fluffy harmless observation time'.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

I think, at the end of the day, the real antagonist is the brokenness of humanity.

My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.

I did a lot of crazy things so I'm surprised to be alive.

Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure.

This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.

No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love.

My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was.

Laughing at something is a form of accepting it or at list making peace with it.