Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and me… - Aldous Huxley

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

That so many of the well fed young television-watchers in the world's most powerful democracy should be so completely indifferent to the idea of self-government, so blankly uninterested in freedom of thought and the right to dissent, is distressing, but not too surprising. "Free as a bird", we say, and envy the winged creatures for their power of unrestricted movement in all the three dimensions. But alas, we forget the dodo. Any bird that has learned how to grub up a good living without being compelled to use its wings will soon renounce the privilege of flight and remain forever grounded.

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.