The most nearly free men have always been those who combined virtue with insight. - Aldous Huxley

You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

You can't make flivers without steel - and you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now. People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get. They're well off; they're safe; they're never ill; they're not afraid of death; they're blissfully ignorant of passion and old age; they're plagued with no mothers or fathers; they've got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about; they're so conditioned that they pratically can't help behaving as they ought to behave.

Mescalin opens up the way of Mary, but shuts the door on that of Martha.