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

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

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 am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

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

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.