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

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

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

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.

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.

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