Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.

Art is the sex of the imagination.

All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.