Above All, Do Not Talk Yourself Out

To Watch A Football Game Is To Be In A Prolonged Neurotic Doubt As To What You're Seeing. It's More Like An Emergency Happening At A Distance Than A Game. I Don't Wonder The Spectators Take To Drink.

Above All, Do Not Talk Yourself Out Of Good Ideas By Trying To Expound Them At Haphazard Meetings.

The Piano Is The Social Instrument Par Excellence... Drawing-room Furniture, A Sign Of Bourgeois Prosperity, The Most Massive Of The Devices By Which The Young Are Tortured In The Name Of Education And The Grown-up In The Name Of Entertainment.

Like Rousseau, Whom He Resembles Even More Than He Resembles Voltaire, Shaw Never Gave A Social Form To His Assertiveness, Never Desired To Arrive And To Assimilate Himself, Or Wield Authority As Of Right.

Criticism Will Need An Injection Of Humility That Is, A Recognition Of Its Role As Ancillary To The Arts, Needed Only Occasionally In A Temporary Capacity. Since The Critic Exists Only For Introducing And Explaining, He Must Be Readily Intelligible; He Has No Special Vocabulary: Criticism Is In No Way A Science Or A System.