Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

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

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.