Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

Nonprofit status is what created the Bible Belt. The tax code brought religion back to this country.

Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.

Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.

In the First Amendment to the Constitution, the Founders made it clear that this was not to be a sky-god nation with a national religion like that of England, from whom we had just separated. It is curious how little understood this amendment is-yes, everyone has a right to worship any god he chooses but he does not have the right to impose his beliefs on others who do not happen to share in his superstitions and taboos.