“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”
“The excellence of every Art is its intensity.”
“The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.”
“What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes intense desire.”
“Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat.”
“To be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.”