Daniel Thomas Daly

“Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.”
― John Ashbery

“One is always half mad when one is shy of people.”
― Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten

“Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.”
― Brigid Brophy

“The world is disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.”
― Ronald Firbank, Vainglory