'There are some men who are considered quite ugly, but who are more remarkable than pretty people. You often see that in artists.'

'The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses…

'All very fine, Mary; but my old-fashioned common sense is better than your clever modern nonsense.'

'The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.'

He has a face like a hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly it becomes beautiful, with its strange mouth, its deep-cut, criss-cross lines, and its doughnut comp…

All the carnall beauty of my wife, Is but skin deep.

'He shows up, he looks shitty, he's got junk equipment, he looks like he's just got up and I want to punch him, and then Aaron starts playing and on the first …