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.

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

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.

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

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

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.