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

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

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.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

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

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