“I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.”

“Out of the firelight everything was black and silver, black island, rocks and trees carved cleanly out of the sky and silver river with a flashing light rippling back and forth along the lip of the...”

“I'm frightend. Of us. I want to go home. O God I to go home." "It's was an accident," said Piggy stubbornly,"and that's that." He touched Ralph's bare shoulder and Ralph shuddered at the human cont...”

“He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.”

“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”

“The thing is--fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.”

“Every evil starts with 15 volts.”

“My feeling about work is that it's an unnecessary evil, so I've always done my best to avoid it.”

“Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”

“Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.”

“Put the gun to my head and paint walls with my brains.”

“Put the gun to my head and paint walls with my brains.”