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

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

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

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.

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.

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.