George Bernard Shaw

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

I don't eat cereal actually... Frosted Flakes... that's as close as I can get.

In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.