My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

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

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.

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.