Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction. - Aldous Huxley

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

That’s what the human brain is there for — to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly closely to some of the aspects of the external reality behind our experience; then you have science and common sense. Sometimes, on the contrary, the symbols have almost no connection with external reality; then you have paranoia and delirium. More often there’s a mixture, part realistic and part fantastic; that’s religion.

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.