I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on their box, buy the paperback.

What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.

Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.

I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.