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

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

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

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

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

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