Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about.

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.

—Scott Westerfeld

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain

—Scott Westerfeld

We don't always get to choose what we love.

—Scott Westerfeld

Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters—a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.

—Scott Westerfeld

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.

—Scott Westerfeld

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

—Salma Hayek

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

—R. Buckminster Fuller

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

—Petrarch

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

—Pearl Buck

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

—Margaret Cho