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

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

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

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.

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

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