What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.

I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

I don't deny or affirm anything. I'm not very personal.