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

The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.

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

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

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

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

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