For me the road became a zone, in places like Saint Marks poetry Project where I worked for 12 years.

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.

All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependent-arisings. All phenomena do not inherently exist because of being dependently imputed.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut.

You don't want to do what your parents want you to do. You got your own things. And the whole idea of getting a job because of who your father is - that didn't isn't right.

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

Don't give up on God, because God will not give up on you.

Sometimes I just wanted to raise my hands and stop. But stop what? Maybe just growing up.

Revision is a good impulse to have.

That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.