... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking. - Aldous Huxley

It is better that one should suffer than that many should be corrupted. Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual — and after all what is an individual? With a sweeping gesture he indicated the rows of microscopes, the test-tubes, the incubators. We can make a new one with the greatest ease — As many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the lie of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself, he repeated.

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

The film concludes with ... the most nauseatingly luscious, the most penetratingly vulgar mammy song that it has ever been my lot to hear. My flesh crept as the loud speaker poured out those sodden words, the greasy, sagging melody. I felt ashamed of myself for listening to such things, for even being a member of the species to which such things are addressed.