Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better -- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

He doesn't mind if he dies... indeed, he would like to die; but yet he fears to fall. He would welcome a long sleep; but not at the price of falling to it.

How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

The mask was a thing on it's own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-conciousness.

Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply. We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

You'll get back to where you came from.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.