It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.

The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be.

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.