I was not ever hitchhiking alone. I've done solo train trips but I've never driven myself alone.

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.

My mother started taking us to church when I was in seventh or eight grade. That was always a question, Do you believe in God?

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

There is rampant among us a spirit of criticism. Men and women who carry heavy responsibility do not need criticism, they need encouragement.

I want you to go to the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College tomorrow morning, Ms.Lane.

I really, really want to go to Paris. I've never been.

There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.

Im not a celebrity. I dont take myself too seriously. I know where I stand in the food chain. And no matter how much of an insider I ever become or am, Ill still always be an outsider.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.