Quote: Aldous Huxley

"It's dark because you're trying too hard," said Susila.  "Dark because you want it to be light.  Remember what you used to tell me when I was a little girl. 'Lightly, child, lightly. You've got to learn to do everything lightly.  Yes, feel lightly, even though you're feeling deeply.  Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.'  ...Lightly, lightly - it was the best advice ever given me.  Well, now I'm going to say the same thing to you, Lakshmi...Lightly, my darling, lightly.  Even when it comes to dying."

This passage is from Island, Huxley's last novel, published the year before his death, in 1962.  Huxley is mostly famous for Brave New World, a depiction of a dystopian society, published in 1932.   I feel that Island, published 30 years later, is a much more mature book.  I think because it depicts a utopian view of how a society could be structured around the needs of the individual, it is wrongly perceived as naive.  Particularly in modern America, where we are all well-versed in dystopia, Island has much more to offer us about life.  I encourage you to add it to your reading list.