Ugliness

“In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.”

“Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.”

“Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. I'm very sensitive to ugly situations. I'm quick to read people, and I pick up if someone's reacting to me as just a sexy blonde. At times like that, I freeze. I can be very alone at a party, on the set, or in general, if I'm not in harmony with things around me.”

“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting … but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It’s that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive.”

“Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.”