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

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.

If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?

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

The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.

I play the piano passionately and inaccurately. Indeed, I worked out the other day that of my seventy-five years; I have spent at least one year sitting on a piano stool.

How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?