Simple English Is No One’s Mother Tongue.

The Danger That May Really Threaten (crime Fiction) Is That Soon There Will Be More Writers Than Readers

I Have Always Been - I Think Any Student Of History Almost Inevitably Is - A Cheerful Pessimist.

Seeing Clearly Within Himself And Always Able To Dodge Around The Ends Of Any Position, Including His Own, Shaw Assumed From The Start The Dual Role Of Prophet And Gadfly. To His Contemporaries It Appeared Frivolous And Contradictory To Perform As Both Superman And Socialist, Sceptic And Believer, Legalist And Heretic, High-brow And Mob-orator. But Feeling The Duty To Teach As Well As To Mirror Mankind, Shaw Did Not Accept Himself As A Contradictory Being.

Teaching Is Not A Lost Art, But The Regard For It Is A Lost Tradition.

Let Us Face A Pluralistic World In Which There Are No Universal Churches, No Single Remedy For All Diseases, No One Way To Teach Or Write Or Sing, No Magic Diet, No World Poets, And No Chosen Races, But Only The Wretched And Wonderfully Diversified Human Race.