There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.

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.

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

I didn't like it when he looked at me like that. I could never escape the feeling that i was being compared to someone else.

Love is the gateway to cosmic energy and wisdom.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.

I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.

Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.

By 17, I was modeling and had bought myself a flat. I've always tried to be self-sufficient.

That's the key: get the constitution in place. Get rule of law in place, capital will come, electricity will follow.

How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?