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.

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 was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

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.

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

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

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.