An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but he was something absolutely modern and up-to-date that only this ghastly age could produce. A tiny bit of a man pretending to be whole.
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher
