While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.

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.

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.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.