“With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.”
“To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things...”
“To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.”
“And the beautiful are forgiven; no matter how egregious their shortcomings, they are forgiven.”
“The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.”
“The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.”