All great art is born of the metropolis.

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass

America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.

Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.

Any damn fool can be spontaneous.

It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.