Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

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

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

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

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

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.