Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.