“A squat gray building of only thirty-four stories.”

“Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.”

“Twenty-two years eight months and four days from that moment, a promising young Alpha- Minus administrator at Mwanza-Mwanza was to die of trypanosomiasis - the first case for over half a century. Sighing, Lenina went on with her work.”

“Punctured, utterly deflated, he dropped into a chair and, covering his face with his hands, began to weep. A few minutes later, however, he thought better of it and took four tablets of soma.Upstairs in his room the Savage was reading Romeo and Juliet.”

“Only times and places, only names and ghosts.”

“Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.”

“Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.”