320 Quotes by William Golding

What is like chemistry?""Well. Life.""It's an outrageous farce, Oliver, with an incompetent producer...

The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled.

I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.

Allow me to tell you, Mr Taylor", said I, but quietly as the occassion demanded, "that one gentleman does not rejoice at the misfortune of another in public".

If you accept life dully, you can go through it moving not among things but among words.

Now to be precise. I had seen the whole building as an image of living, praying man. But inside it was a richly written book to instruct that man.

For if humanity has a future on this planet of a hundred million years, it is unthinkable that it should spend those aeons in a ferment of national self-satisfaction and chauvinistic idiocies.

-Iti spun un lucru. Ce este mai apropiat decat fratele de frate, mama de copil?Ce este mai apropiat decat mana de gura, gandul de minte? E viziunea, Roger. Nu ma astept ca tu sa intelegi asta...-Dar pricep,mai incape vorba!Jocelin isi inalta chipul si deodata zambi:-Chiar intelegi?-Dar vine clipa in care viziunea nu mai e decat jocul copilului de-a-sa-zicem.-Aha!Clatina din cap, incet, atent; si luminile plutira.-Atunci nu intelegi deloc. Deloc.

¿Tú lo sabías, verdad? ¿Que soy parte de ti? ¡Caliente, caliente, caliente! ¿Que soy la causa de que todo salga mal? ¿De que las cosas sean como son?