The Greatest Artists Have Never Been Men

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.

Machines Are Admirable And Tyrannize Only With The User's Consent. Where, Then, Is The Enemy? Not Where The Machine Gives Relief From Drudgery But Where Human Judgment Abdicates. The Smoothest Machine-made Product Of The Age Is The Organization Man, For Even The Best Organizing Principle Tends To Corrupt, And The Mechanical Principle Corrupts Absolutely.

Whoever Wants To Know The Heart And Mind Of America Had Better Learn Baseball, The Rules And Realities Of The Game - And Do It By Watching First Some High School Or Small-town Teams.

I'll Read, And Then I'll Take Naps. When I Feel Sleep Coming On, I Give In And Don't Fight It.

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.