I did not want to say these unpleasant things, but you have written to me, asking my opinion, and I give it to you, flat. If you would get over two ideas - first that any one who criticizes you is an evil and capitalist-controlled spy, and second that you have only to spend a few weeks on any subject to become a master of it - you might yet regain your now totally lost position as the leader of American socialistic journalism.

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

You protest, and with justice, each time Hitler jails an opponent; but you forget that Stalin and company have jailed and murdered a thousand times as many. It…

What Fielding was to the eighteenth century and Dickens to the nineteenth. Sinclair is to our own. The overwhelming knowledge and passionate expression of spec…

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

Never retreat; never explain; never apologize. Get the job done and let them howl.

George W. Bush is a man who seems to be the center of his own universe. He seems to have learned little of human nature and even less of human history over his…