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

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

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.

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

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.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.