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.

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 rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

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

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

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

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