Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.
Colin WilsonThe self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.
Colin WilsonThe Americans have always been more open to my ideas. In fact, I could earn a living in America just by lecturing. One of my brightest audiences, incidentally, were the prisoners in a Philadelphia gaol - brighter than my students at university.
Colin WilsonThe "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.
Colin WilsonI 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.
Colin Wilson