"I almost didn't make it tonight...today. That's where I am. I ran out of gas, which, uh, is causing me a greater anxiety now, then when I actually ran out of gas so, I just figured out what really happened. A few years ago, only Jim Brody knows this, uh, I was preparing a book and I called it Wild Flowers and I wasn't satisfied with the title. I was working on it and Jim was over the house, and my brother in law had come, and he was late. He was supposed to be there at a certain time, and I said, "What happened?" No, I said "Gimme a title, quick, for my book." So he said, "Ran out of gas." So I said, "That's it, Wild Flowers Out of Gas." Jim was there at the time, I think everybody, uh, voiced their consent simultaneously that that was the title. But, uh, it just reminded me of that time and, uh, brought back the whole thing, just my running out of gas, so I didn't know if I was going to make it today...Okay."

-Joseph Ceravolo (Reading at the Ear Inn, New York, October 21, 1978)