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

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.

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

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

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

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

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