The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

“The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit quietly…”

“The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.”

“people who only love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they c…”

“Ah, Robbie, when we are dead and buried in our porphyry tombs, and the trumpet …”