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.

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

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.

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

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

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.

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