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.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

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

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

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