Yukio Mishima on his writing style:
"My ideal style would have had the grave beauty of polished wood in the entrance hall of a samurai mansion on a winter's day."
Dude was really messed up. This is how you end up committing seppuku and inspiring generations of malcontents into general dickishness.
Me, I want my writing to have the low-gravitas feel of a McMansion.
Dude was a towering genius but we can't all be one. He wasn't a hypocrite, that's for sure, he lived his philosophy, and he certainly wasn't mediocre. He wanted better bread than could be made of wheat.
Reading him today is, in that sense, a refreshing corrective to the reigning ideological approach to the arts. See: the NYT on Titian, a million other examples.