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Other Quotes by Will Self
- Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because…
- There is a deep sadness to American poverty, greater than the sadness of any other kind. It's because America has such an ideology of success.
- Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply don't understand -…
- As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more…
- My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other…
- I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.
- The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.
- Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far…
- What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the…
More Other Quotes
- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Friendship is not only about sharing each and everything having long conversation, hanging out, its about having complete trust in each other… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle