“Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.”

“India is beyond statement, for anything you say, the opposite is also true. It's rich and poor, spiritual and material, cruel and kind, angry but peaceful, ugly and beautiful, and smart but stupid. It's all the extremes.”

“Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands." "No he has kind of amazing hands.”

“...often a thing that is ugly is ugly in itself, and often a thing that is ugly is only a thing that is forgotten, kept from view and kept from memory, and often a thing that is ugly is not only a definition of beauty itself but also renders beauty as something beyond words or beyond any kind of description.”

“I've no idea if she's ugly or beautiful; it's kind of irrelevant. As long as it's her.”

“I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.”