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.

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.

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.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

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.