...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it. - Robertson Davies

If I had to describe my remarks this evening frankly — as if I were in police court and on oath, so to speak — I should have to call it a ramble over several subjects, portions of which may seem to you to be impudent, and portions of which will be ignorant, and portions of which may contrive to be both at once.

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.

Hubbard was a notoriously queer American