I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.

It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It’s then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult – but you are not ready.

It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.

Girls go out together to see a chick flick or something. I loathe, I hate, chick flicks.

I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back 40 years and say, 'Is this a world you want to live in?' They would say, 'No.'

Words can be used for venal purposes. Words are incredible sources of propaganda and can cause terrible havoc.

I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure. I don't think I have slept in the same bed for more than three or four months my whole life. I am always planting vegetables that I never get to eat and flowers that I never see flower. I have always moved around the world.