For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people I've been close to.

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.

Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

I got your head noddin' cuz your neck knows it's phat.

Good friends, good whiskey, and good lovin', I want to thank you Lord.

I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it.

Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.

When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.

I don’t cry when I lose. There’s always a new hand coming up.

I am content to fill a little space if God be glorified.

A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.