There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it.

In spiritual matters, knowledge is dependent upon being; as we are, so we know.

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

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

The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.

The more you know, the more you see

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.