Quotes from Aldous Huxley

Chastity: The most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.

it was four years since he had preached that sermon; four years, and England was at peace, the sun shone, the people of Crome were as wicked and indifferent as ever—more so, indeed, if that were possible. If only he could understand, if the heavens would but make a sign!

Rams wrapped in thermogene beget no lambs.

In a world of universal deciet telling the truth is an revolutionary act

Unmentioned, what is can become as though it were not.

It is their duty to be infantile, even against their inclination.

That's one of the disadvantages of getting older; you're inclined to make intimate contacts with fewer people.

Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.

The untutored egotist merely wants what he wants. Give him a religious education, and it becomes obvious to him, it becomes axiomatic, that what he wants is what God wants, that his cause is the cause of whatever he may happen to regard as the True Church and that any compromise is a metaphysical Munich, an appeasement of Radical Evil.

Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness.

I'm thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I've got something to say and the power to say it -- only I don't know what it is, and I can't make use of the power. If there was some different way of writing...Or else something else to write about.