Marquis de Sade
- The 120 Days of Sodom
Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace.
Isaac Asimov
- The End of Eternity
Could he tell her any of this? Of course not. Could he tell her that women almost never qualified for eternity because, for some reason, he did not understand (computers might, but he himself certainly did not) their abstraction from time was from ten to a hundred times as likely to distort reality as was the abstraction of a man.
