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.

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

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.

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.

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.

I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.