I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households… — 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
