Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.

Worse than madness. Sanity.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

Are we savages or what?

I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.

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