Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, we find humanity in a comical position.… — William Golding Copy Share Image
One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean. — William Golding Copy Share Image
I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist's discipline forces him to ignore. — William Golding Copy Share Image
Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction.… — William Golding Copy Share Image
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… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Once more, amid the breeze, the shouting, the slanting sunlight on the high mountain, was shed that glamour, that strange invisible light of friendship,… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“I stood, in shame and confusion, seeing for the first time despite my anger a different picture of Evie in her life-long struggle to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop him hollering.… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible. — William Golding Copy Share Image
“He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop… — William Golding Copy Share Image
