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

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

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

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

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.

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

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.