Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
I preach there are all kinds of truth your truth and somebody else's. But...
Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences I often read poetry.
