Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.

The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.

the mute protest in your own bones

Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.

If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen.