For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.
Aldous HuxleyEvery civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
Aldous HuxleyA physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
Aldous Huxley