There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

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.

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.

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.