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.

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

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

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.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

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