“It was one of the few things he had to believe in, the possibility of beauty when faced with the reality of so much ugliness.”

“I want to believe as many true things and as few false things as possible.”

“He believed in walking beautifully, elegantly. It had to work as a kind of faith that he would get to the other side. He had fallen once while training - once exactly, so he felt it couldn't happen again, it was beyond possibility. A single flaw was necessary anyway. In any work of beauty there had to be one small thread left hanging.”

“He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.”

“Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wildlife.”

“What good is modesty? — It makes us seem more beautiful when we are beautiful, and less ugly when we are ugly.”

“Everything seems possible during childhood, but things start to change as we age and face the realities of the universe.”

“I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.”

“Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”

“One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.”