“... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.”

“No, give me the past. It doesn’t change; it’s all there in black and white, and you can get to know about it comfortably and decorously and, above all, privately - by reading. … As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.”

“Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.”

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”

“The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.”

“Nature, or anything that reminds me of nature, disturbs me; it is too large, too complicated, above all too utterly pointless and incomprehensible.”

“What fun it would be if one didn't have to think about happiness!" - From Brave New World”