America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

I remember scrutinizing his face. I remember drinking his face down to the last drop, trying to elucidate the character, the psychology of such an individual. And yet the only thing about him that has remained is my memory of his ugliness.

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

I'm so ugly - I worked in a pet shop, and people kept asking how big I'd get

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.

People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.