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

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

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

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