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]