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

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

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

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.

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

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