I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

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

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

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

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

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.