Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

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

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

Pain was a fascinating horror

Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.