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

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

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

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

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.

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'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.