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.

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.

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

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

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