Heaven lies around us in our infancy. Auteur: William Golding Copy Quote More from William Golding “Yet I was wound up. I tick. I exist. I am poised eighteen inches over the black…” “Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.” “They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sw…” “I've always been puzzled, and am still at this moment in a state of confusion, …”