It's a kind of liberation to break free in language, if you can break free, but it's also a confinement, because form confines you - whatever the form.

I have left out what I don't remember or don't know. Temperament, fear, shyness, obedience, kindness.

If the Buddhist's job is to be detached, I think that the artist's job is to be both detached and attached.

I've been active in a minor way compared to professional activists. I was a labor leader. I led two labor strikes. I've manipulated boards. I've led marches. I've done many things.

It's a kind of liberation to break free in language, if you can break free, but it's also a confinement, because form confines you - whatever the form.

Humor is not funny. Humor is something else. Funny is a joke, sometimes silly. Comedy is deep and connected to tragedy; comedy could be deeper than tragedy, in my view.

I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.