The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.

To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be

The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.

Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.

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

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.

You'll get back to where you came from.