Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
I think art is sublimated libido. You canโt be a eunuch priest, and you canโt be a eunuch artist.
We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.