In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'

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

He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?

When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.