As a younger person you can come in through many, many gateways. It's like some huge Mandela. You can enter into this and get refreshed.

In my teen years and early twenties I was really interested in this fellaheen worlds that, of course, Kerouac invokes and wanting to go below the border and wanting to get to these other places or interstices of the culture where you were encountering the realities of these other kinds of cultures, experiences, language, I think of jazz culture of course.

Various random experiments, cut-ups, fold-ins, juxtapositions, timed writings of other kinds, the "objects assignment" which involves dream, adventure, ancestry. Writing outside, writing on moving vehicles. Looking at paintings in the grand museums of the world in a proscribed way.Little strategies to keep the lalita - play or dance - going. Sometimes it's lonely you know, just you and your own imagination.

I still had to correct Allen Ginsberg at times when he called women girls. I'd say. Allen please, it's not politically correct.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

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

I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon.