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

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

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

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

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

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

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