Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.
Aldous HuxleyGreat is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
Aldous HuxleyThe advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.
Aldous HuxleyThese are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.
Aldous HuxleyKnowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment
Aldous HuxleyWhat's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair.
Aldous Huxley