“Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.”
“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.”
“Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.”
“...he called me whore, slut, bitch…all the beautiful ugly words that secretly thrilled me.”
“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.”
“In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.”