To be a fool at the right time is also an art.

Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

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.