I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.
“I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.”
“Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.”