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

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

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.

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

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

The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

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

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

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

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.

Nothing is impossible. If you can envision your dreams, you have the power to make your dreams a reality. Have faith in yourself and don't be afraid to dream big. The biggest obstacle is yourself.

Whatever may happen, the memories of then will always remain, ever so sweetly with me, nothing to tarnish it. Not even the ugliness of reality.

I swearwe'd lose ourhearts ifthey weren'twith elasticand butterflypinclasped safelyin.

There are six-million shots in the game of pool.

The people who present themselves as normal and nice and good are often the scariest monsters in the world.

The Christian faith is a singing faith, and a good way to express it and share it with others is in community singing.

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.

There is nothing as tragic as being alive and not enjoying life... Life should be celebrated!

The voice is nothing but beaten air.

Love is the life spring of our existence. The more love you give, the happier you feel and the more love you will have within you to give.