For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.