“Beautiful girlsJust primpBut beautiful boysDo suffer.”

“beautiful insanein the rain”

“The beauty of things must be that they end.”

“And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.”

“All life is but a skull-bone andA rack of ribs through whichwe keep passing food & fuel-just so's we can burn sofurious beautiful.”

“She was a nice little girl, simple and true, and tremendously frightened of sex. I told her it was beautiful. I wanted to prove this to her. She let me prove it, but I was too impatient and proved nothing.”

“Overpowered by the sadness of not knowing what there is in the world, and what I'm doing. Feeling completely indifferent to good and evil too, to beauty or anything else. I know that this is the root of all human troubles, all of them. Indifferent to that knowledge, too. Nothing got written.”