We can think for ourselves and we can awaken the world to a greater consciousness.

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.

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.

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?

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Arise my friend, Awake my friend and work for humanity, not to make it sophisticated, but to make it peaceful first.

Whoever risks, shall know how far they can reach.

After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.

I was like the good girl, bad girl, there were no grey areas for me.

Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running experiments.

My first memory is on a ship from California back to Sydney. Water is just a natural place of home and not home.

Life is supposed to get tough.

JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.

In some roles I have to wear fur, and I always make sure it's fake, like in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Faux fur is great because it shows people that faux can look fabulous.