“Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.”

“[children]can thus learn the art of loving and know truly that when they think a thought they release a tremendous power or force in space.”

“It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.”

“A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.”

“I would have chosen any other than this for my prison. A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.”

“It is important to always remember that at any time you think of it there are people being kept in buildings when they want to go outside.”

“Beautiful is not something you become. It's something you already are.”