The concern of a democracy is that no honest man shall feel uncomfortable, I don’t care who he is, or how nutty he is. - E.B. White

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments — moments of sustained creation — when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.

The Herald Tribune headed the story, “PRESIDENT SAYS PRAYER IS PART OF DEMOCRACY.” The implication in such a pronouncement, emanating from the seat of government, is that religious faith is a condition, or even a precondition, of the democratic life.