I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.

- William Golding

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in s…

- William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

- William Golding

What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?

- William Golding

We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

- William Golding

I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces…

- William Golding

The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

- William Golding

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.

- William Golding

Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.

- William Golding