William golding Quotes

“I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper.”

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

“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men they are far superior and always have been. ”

“Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.”

“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men they are far superior and always have been.”

“He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.”

“I find it very difficult to talk here now because I'm watching the sea all the time. The sea always makes me watch it all the time. I've spent hours and hours not just on the sea but just watching wave after wave come in. If it's an image of anything, I think it's an image of our own unconscious, the unconscious of our own minds... or you can put it the other way around, and that is that we have a sea in us. After all, we are sea creatures that learnt to walk on the land, are we not? And perhaps one way or another we go back to it. Every night when we dream we go back into that kind of depths, and that kind of beauty and monstrosity and mystery. So really the sea is not a single image, it can really image almost anything that the human mind can discover.”

“I got this to say. You're acting like a crowd of kids.”

“-I got the conch!" --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy”