• I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

    Aldous Huxley: I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.
    Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”