My teachers were often very eccentric.

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.

If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery.

Great charismatic leaders don't just say what voters want to hear

What's cooler than bein' cool?

I want to be known as a great businessman.

Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership.

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.

Attention is the currency of leadership.