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Danh ngôn của William Golding (Sứ mệnh: 3)

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
Boys do not evaluate a book. They divide books into categories. There are sexy books, war books, westerns, travel books, science fiction. A boy will accept anything from a section he knows rather than risk another sort. He has to have the label on the bottle to know it is the mixture as before.
I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature.
If you... scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men; they are far superior and always have been.
Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to.
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.