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

There are energies that reside in each phone and phoneme. And we can release them.

Connection to Buddhism is strand in my life.

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

There's a kind of training, when you are sitting in a session in the Japanese tradition or any of the Buddhist traditions, taking your lotus posture or whatever it is. That's what you're doing.

For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future.