I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s.

In the '80s and '90s we started to have economic problems because society became more conservative. So we didn't have the wherewithal for expanding to other areas.

Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.

I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses.

After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois the skirt lengths dropped instead of going up as they had during the roaring twenties and I knew that was a very bad sign, and it is symbolic and reflective of a very repressive time, and some of that was laid the feet of the cold war.