All these children [who did not have music and art classes at school] go out into the world without knowing that there is anything other than what they have. Of course, children do look at TV, but what does it give them?

Here I am, one of the most colorful women of my time - if not of my block - being made to sound positively legumelike in printed interviews.

If I don't feel right about what I'm in, I don't feel right about anything.

Total contentment is only for cows.

My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first [compost] heap.

Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.

There comes a time whenyou haveto let yourclothesgo out in the world and try to make it on their own.