Here at last was the imagined but never fully realized place leaping into real life. - William Golding

For if humanity has a future on this planet of a hundred million years, it is unthinkable that it should spend those aeons in a ferment of national self-satisfaction and chauvinistic idiocies.

Philosophy and religion - what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?

He noticed, without understanding, how the flames were visible now against the dull light. Evening was come, not with calm beauty but with the threat of violence