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

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

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.

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

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.

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