If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.
A. N. Wilson – [Slander]


In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity — or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity — by being opinionated rather than by being learned.
A. N. Wilson – [Academia]


The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
A. N. Wilson – [Logic]