top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
More
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us."
God
"I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go."
Thinking
"There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation."
Editing
"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."
Poetry
"I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James."
Prose
"The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer."
Sophists
"It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel."
Character
"I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out."
Shaggy
"I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty."
Emotional
"There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be."
Society
bottom of page