Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

Artists are the antennae of the race.

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.

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.