I'm afraid of habit patterns...It would be too much of a routine if you had to establish definite ways of getting through things. You'd get very bored.

It's not that I'm rebelling. It's that I'm just trying to find another way.

I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run by that kind of power.

I came to New York to see what I could see - that's from a children's book, isn't it? - and to find the living part.

I'd like to turn the whole world on just for a moment. Just for a moment.

I'll have to put more earrings on. I bet that someone could analyze me and tell my condition by my earrings.

I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it’s worth being a public fool if that’s all you can be in order to communicate yourself.