No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption ... For myself, as no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneous liberation from a certain political and economic system, and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.