Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me.

Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.