An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to cause you to see things differently

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.

Be a poet and write your own unique poetry of life.

Be the woman who falls so deeply in love with herself that nothing can stop her from loving all of life!

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.

I'm such a workaholic. I'm always thinking about work.

I do not follow closely anymore, since there is a limit to how much heartsickness one can bear.

The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show youre a great performer.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.