I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

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

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

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

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

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.