The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

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.

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

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