I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.

Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!

Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.

Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.

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