All Truly Great Art Is Optimistic. The

Pessimism Is Mental Disease. It Means Illness In The Person Who Voices It, And In The Society Which Produces That Person.

You Don't Have To Be Satisfied With America As You Find It. You Can Change It. I Didn't Like The Way I Found America Some Sixty Years Ago, And I've Been Trying To Change It Ever Since.

So The Laws Of Good Driving Forbade You To Go Off The Magic Ribbon Except In Extreme Emergencies. You Were Ethically Entitled To Several Inches Of Margin At The Right-hand Edge; And The Man Approaching You Was Entitled To An Equal Number Of Inches; Which Left A Remainder Of Inches Between The Two Projectiles As They Shot By. It Sounds Risky As One Tells It, But The Heavens Are Run On The Basis Of Similar Calculations, And While Collisions Do Happen, They Leave Time Enough In Between For Universes To Be Formed, And Successful Careers Conducted By Men Of Affairs.

It Is The Music Which Makes It What It Is; It Is The Music Which Changes The Place From The Rear Room Of A Saloon In Back Of The Yards To A Fairy Place, A Wonderland, A Little Comer Of The High Mansions Of The Sky.

It Is Foolish To Be Convinced Without Evidence, But It Is Equally Foolish To Refuse To Be Convinced By Real Evidence.