I lived in France during the '60s. I was there from the early '60s until 1970, so my view of the '60s is more global. It was a time of tremendous transition, not only for America but for the whole world.

When I'm in Canada, I feel this is what the world should be like.

Aging is a staircase - the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. As you may know, the entire world operates on a universal law: entropy, the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy means that everything in the world, everything, is in a state of decline and decay, the arch. There's only one exception to this universal law, and that is the human spirit, which can continue to evolve upwards.

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

Every woman should eat for the long run so she can manage the short stops of crisis.

I wasn't a hippie and I wasn't even a bohemian. I was extremely earnest and serious.

Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.