«Hot women are attracted to “shiny objects”: money clips, camera
lenses, fancy watches. All you have to do is flash it better or more
profusely than the next guy and you’re in. This is something men
can understand, for there is logic here, and structure. A road map
to follow: acquire shiny objects, acquire hot women. Simple. One for
the left arm and one for the right arm? Sure, why not?
Beautiful women do not care about these things at all. They are attracted to only one thing in men: beauty. And what is the beauty in a man? A lifelong devotion to a personal passion, a passion larger than him, larger than her, larger than the whole wide world, a passion that radiates from his pores until the day he dies. This is the beauty of men. And this is why beautiful women are forever in love with starving artists, musicians, dreamers, iconoclasts. They love these men because they, too, possess a certain, rare beauty. They, too, are set apart.»
-- Zan Perrion, "The alabaster girl"