Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.

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

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'

I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.