Sam

“Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception

“That is the secret of happiness and virtue -- liking what you've got to do.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling.”
― Alfred North Whitehead

“..there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon...”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World