Quotes from William Golding

The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled.

Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like a jewel in space. We have no excuse now for supposing her riches inexhaustible nor the area we have to live on limitless because unbounded. We are the children of that great blue white jewel. Through our mother we are part of the solar system and part through that of the whole universe. In the blazing poetry of the fact we are children of the stars.

Caminaron juntos, como dos universos distintos de experiencias y sentimientos, incapaces de comunicarse.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English; and the English are the best at everything. So we've got to do the right things

Lok was running as fast as he could. His head was down and he carried his thorn bush horizontally for balance and smacked the drifts of vivid buds aside with his free hand.

His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.

The boys were dancing. The pile was so rotten, and now so tinder-dry, that whole limbs yielded passionately to the yellow flames that poured upwards and shook a great beards of flame twenty feet in the air. For yards round the fire the heat was like a blow, and the breeze was a river of sparks. Trunks crumbled to a white dust.

I spit upon your God!

I recognised uneasily the hand of what I sometimes thought to be my personal nemesis, the spirit of farce.

The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.

We don't know much about our current selves, do we?

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.