Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.
William GoldingIt is at least scientifically respectable to postulate that at the centre of a black hole the laws of nature no longer apply. Since most scientists are just a bit religious and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.
William GoldingI'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.
William GoldingHow would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?
William GoldingDon't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.
William Golding