Colin Wilson Quotes (10 Quotes)

He has been forced to test his own powers in this area enormously over the past year. When I was pretty sure that the autobiography was going to be a great success, ... and when it, on the contrary, got viciously attacked... well, I know I'm not wrong. Obviously the times are out of joint.

I enjoyed being able to help raise money for them,

One of my main problems as far as the public is concerned is that I've always been interested in too many things, ... and if they can't typecast you as a writer on this or that, then I'm afraid you tend not to be understood at all.

I wanted the hands to reach out to help the people who were hurt in the hurricane, ... And I wrote down the year on the button so everyone would remember it was this year.

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world,but to change it.

Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up film. If you ask What the hell is wrong with the projector and go up to the control room, you find it's empty. You are the projectionist, and you should have been up there all the time.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

I have a strong antipathy to everything connected with gardens, gardening and gardeners.... Gardening seems to me a kind of admission of defeat.... Man was made for better things than pruning his rose trees. The state of mind of the confirmed gardener seems to me as reprehensible as that of the confirmed alcoholic. Both have capitulated to the world. Both have become lotus eaters and drifters.

Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of. So I was relieved to get out of London.

The complex develops out of the simple.