At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.
In 83 I thought we were going to go all the way. We had Roy Smalley, and Steve King, and good players.
At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.
I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70.
The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.
I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.
I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.
If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
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