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

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

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

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.

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

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.