I am a self-appointed ambassador for poetry.

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.

Don't be a hater and call it love.

To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

Unchecked Corporate power leads to tyranny just like unchecked Government power.

With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all.

Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

I don't believe there is a clash between cultures. I believe there is a clash between perceptions of each other.

I would hate to be on a plane every day.

Always be sexy. I salute that message.