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

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

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

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

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

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.