If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.
Aldous HuxleyA majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.
Aldous HuxleyBeing cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
Aldous HuxleyMost loverspicture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. They are in love with somebody else--their own invention. And sometimes there is a secret reality; and sometimes reality and appearance are the same. The discovery, in either case, is likely to cause a shock.
Aldous Huxley