… but love, like all art, as Oscar said, it's quite useless. It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe but not worth bothering with.
Referencing Oscar Wilde from the preface of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"; "All art is quite useless". - Moab is My Washpot (autobiography, 1997)