Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

'Fortunate boys!' said the Controller. 'No pains have been spared to make your lives emotionally easy--to preserve you, so far as that is possible, from having emotions at all.'

'But God doesn't change.' 'Men do, though.'

"You can only be independent of God while you've got youth and prosperity; independence won't take you safely to the end."

'But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.'

'In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.'