What Fielding was to the eighteenth century and Dickens to the nineteenth. Sinclair is to our own. The overwhelming knowledge and passionate expression of specific wrongs are more stirring, more interesting, and also more taxing than the cynical censure of Fielding and the sentimental lamentations of Dickens.

I never met a Socialist, or a Socialist cause, that I didn't like.

I look upon Upton Sinclair as one of the greatest novelists in the world, the Zola of America.

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.

Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.

As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in…

One of the objections I have against Campbell's Astounding was that there was too little love in it. It was a very loveless magazine. They never took enough ac…