Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.

The knowledge of our ancestors will always echo thru the ages, but it's on you to listen in order to hear.

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

That was huge. Just enormous. It's given us a tremendous leg up.

I have always had tremendous respect for my sister as an artist, as a woman, and now as a mother.