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.

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 was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

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

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

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.

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