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

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 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.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

Don’t live your life not knowing what to do with your time.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

This is a great tool for students as the book gets right to the heart of learning how to learn and engaging your whole brain.

No one ever lost out by excessive devotion to Christ.

I feel very deeply for Canada, and l believe most Canadians do.

The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.

- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.

When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.