I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

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

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

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

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

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

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.