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.

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

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

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

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.