“What is beauty or ugliness but a false front that prompts man to make assumptions rather than delving deeper.”

“Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.”

“I’d rather be short, fat, and ugly than take after that man. (Nick)”

“Simply asking a question only practiced by those who would rather know the truth. Rather than guessing and making assumptions. Truth will free you from wrinkles.”

“She was a novel whose plot became more interesting as I delved deeper into the book.”

“She taught me not to block out ugliness by giving imagined beauty false dominion: but that on the other hand, in the midst of hatred and ugliness there is color, there is life, and there is ...personal usefullness... as well.”