Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state.
I am optimistic when I consider the spiritual dimension which the scientist's discipline forces him to ignore.
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature.
He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.
When I wrote 'Lord of the Flies' - I had no idea it would even get published.
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.
I'd rather there wasn't an afterlife, really. I'd much rather not be me for thousands of years.
