153 Quotes by A. N. Wilson

I put a heart next to my signature on every piece to remember him,

I didn't know what I saw -- swamp gas, space ship, sundog, weather balloon. What impressed me was my parents' fear of reporting the sighting. I realized that even in our allegedly rational age many things remain unspeakable -- damned, blasphemous. George Carlin can't do his comedy on networks because the comedy depends on taboo words. We remain governed by taboo to an astounding extent.

I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them.

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.

By far the largest portion of NAC enforcement revenue between now and 2008 comes from network-integrated enforcement devices, but the biggest change is in NAC enforcement appliances, whose share of the market nearly triples between 2005 and 2008.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

If he had put the right people in jail, he would have been forgiven a lot. He is an insider. He prefers compromise.

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.

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.