Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.
I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.
Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.
You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.
I never wanted to be a pundit.
Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling for words on the tongue and in the mind.