10 quotes
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
“And what happened next?”
“Silence happened next. God, it was beautiful.”
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
On the whole, the change had done Huxley a share of good. Death made him a handsomer man to deal with. You could talk to him now and he’d have to listen.
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
The telephone rang like a spoiled brat.
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
I’ve done a prideful thing, a thing more sinful than she ever done to me. I took the bottom out of her life.
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
In touch! There’s a slimy phrase. Touch, hell. Gripped! Pawed, rather. Mauled and massaged and pounded by FM voices.
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
All floated upon an evening carrousel, with fitful drifts of music wafting up here and there, and voices calling and murmuring from houses that were whitely haunted by television.
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
“I believe,” said the first lady, “that our souls are in our hands. For we do everything to the world with our hands. Sometimes I think we don’t use our hands half enough; it’s certain we don’t use our heads.”
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
Then I went in and shot the televisor, that insidious beast, that Medusa, which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little, but myself always going back, going back hoping and waiting until—bang!
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
The monster cried out at the tower. The foghorn blew. The monster roared again. The foghorn blew. The monster opened its great toothed mouth, and the sound that came from it was the sound of the foghorn itself.
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)