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

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

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

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

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.

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