“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”
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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.