I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.

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.

Matched with an aged wife, I mete and doleUnequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

As Antiquus's son, I was next in line to be the leader of my village... But leadership is not inherited. It is earned through action.

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.

A great fortune enslaves its owner.

My name is Reggie, and I, am happy.

The fact is, almost every move of God is, in some ways, profoundly different from the previous ways that He has moved.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation