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

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

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

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

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

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.

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