The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years.

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.

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that.

If the all powerful god controls satan he is an accomplice, and if he doesn't, he is not an all powerful god.

Term limits would make Congress bolder, more independent, and less risk-averse.

When people find out what it is that's ticking in them, they get straightened out.

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

Desire can make anything into a god.

It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.

It's still difficult for me to watch my work.

Do not spread the compost on the weeds.