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

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

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

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.