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

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

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

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

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.

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.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.