“People don’t help much.”

At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

I am here; and here is nowhere in particular.

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

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.

Heaven lies around us in our infancy.

There’s a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

You’ll get back to where you came from.

We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?

The Navy’s a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, ‘Frightfully sorry, old chap.’

He doesn’t mind if he dies… indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.

Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.

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.

While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.

They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.

Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don’t understand.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

I don’t very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

I can’t afford to die; I’d lose too much money.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul.

Too much of a good thing is just about right

I wasted a lot of my talent in the ’90s because the money was so big, and I was making so much money,

No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.

I want to let them know they can have this much fun by doing something legal like me rapping for instance.