Character: Savage John

- So, in your opinion, there is no God?
- It is likely that it is.
- Why?..
- But he manifests himself in different ways in different eras. In premodern times he manifested himself as the being described in these books. Now...
- Yeah, now what?
Now he manifests himself as an absence; It is as if none at all.

- Optimum population, said Mustapha Mond, simulated by us with the iceberg, which is eight ninth of the mass under the water line, one-ninth above water.
And happy those that are under water?
- Happier than those above it.