In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations'… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
