Quote by Mervyn Peake

“His gaze is bottomless, unfathomable. I lean in, indecently close. 'You underestimate me,' I whisper. 'And that is a mistake.”

— Elizabeth May

“You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“His face is more open than an open book, like a wall of graffiti really. I realize I'm writing wow on my thigh with…

— Jandy Nelson

“I respect a man not for the clothes he wears, but for the clothes he doesn’t wear. Yes, nudity is an admirable thing indeed.”

— Jarod Kintz

“And that was the point I knew I just loved this filthy, ugly, loquacious man in a fur coat, who would spend the day…

— Caitlin Moran

“His eyes bore into mine. He watches every nuance, every detail of every expression, as if his existence depends on it. He fucks with…

— Karen Marie Moning

“I know I should look away, I should walk out and quietly close the door behind me, but I can't. Has there ever been…

— Carmen Jenner

“He looks me to pieces … I realize now that I have been glimpsed and corner-of-the-eyed before, by the Chief and my sister and…

— Karen Russell

“He wasn't here to satisfy my idle curiosities. And it held its own fascinations: a man who talked like an innocent and fucked like…

— Alexis Hall

“He must have felt a disturbance just beyond the boundless world his eyes perceived. Maybe like dogs we know when we are being hunted.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“I had a keen delight in receiving the new ideas he offered, in imagining the new pictures he portrayed, and following him in thought…

— Charlotte Brontë