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

I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

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

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

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