"I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love." -Roberto Bolaño, Amulet
"Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or it will not be at all." -André Breton, Nadja
"Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it." -Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality