“Remember, in the tyranny of physical space, an audience too thinly spread is the same as no audience at all.”

“[referring to a suggestive comment aimed at the audience] You too, ladies.”

“You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience. ”

“Manuscript culture is conversational if only because the writer and his audience are physically related by the form of publication as performance.”

“American audiences are just the same as anybody else. Except a bit more boring.”

“That physical tingle, that powerful audible experience(not with poets projecting their work to an audience) but more intimate, less planned than that.”

“If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?”

“In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.”

“Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.”

“Audiences know what to expect, and that is all that they are prepared to believe in.”