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

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

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.

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.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

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

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.