William Golding

I have always understood the Nazis because I am of that sort by nature.

Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state.

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'd rather there wasn't an afterlife, really. I'd much rather not be me for thousands of years.