I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon.

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 let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner v

Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in whether he has the aptitude for it or not.

There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence.

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.

I usually go into a store with a mission. My idea of a fun thing to do would not be to go to a mall and shopping.

The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.

I feel lucky that I didn't have to give up music in exchange for getting clean. I wouldn't recommend that anyone else continue to DJ while they're getting clean.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.