From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

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I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

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

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Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

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My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

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I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

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I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

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It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

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I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

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There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

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