Top 13 Quotes by Colin Wilson

The complex develops out of the simple.

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.

If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer.

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.

I'm basically a writer of ideas, and the English aren't interested in ideas. The English, I'm afraid, are totally brainless.

What I wanted to do was to try to create a philosophy upon a completely new foundation.