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

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

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

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

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 had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.