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 didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

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

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

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.

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.