I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

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

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

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.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.