I got this to say. you are acting like a crowd of kids.
They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned.
The moon was through to the sunset side of the gap, but its light was hardly noticeable on the earth for the ruddy brilliance of the firelight.
If only one had time to think!
Here at last was the imagined but never fully realized place leaping into real life.
The three boys stood in the darkness, striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life.
I was an estructuralist at the age of seven, which is about the right age for it.
Daylight might have answered yes; but darkness and the horrors of death said no.
They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood.
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be.
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.
The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.
Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.
If faces were different when lit from above or below – what was a face? What was anything?