Brian Aldiss quotes

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth. (Brian Aldiss)
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. View quote
Brian Aldiss
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of Hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. View quote
Brian Aldiss
Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. View quote
Brian Aldiss
Keep violence in the mind where it belongs. View quote
Brian Aldiss
Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta. View quote
Brian Aldiss
Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction - it's always playing with how much the human mind can encompass. View quote
Brian Aldiss
If we can see our difficulties, there is a way of resolving them, or the hope of a way. View quote
Brian Aldiss
The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition. View quote
Brian Aldiss
The day of the android has dawned. View quote
Brian Aldiss
However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can. (Brian Aldiss)
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer. View quote
Brian Aldiss
What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general? View quote
Brian Aldiss
If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now. View quote
Brian Aldiss
All over the world there must be far-reaching changes in animal behavior and habitat; if only one could have another life in which to chart it all... Ah, well, that's not a fruitful thing to wish, is it? View quote
Brian Aldiss
Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him! View quote
Brian Aldiss
Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth. View quote
Brian Aldiss
One of the objections I have against Campbell's Astounding was that there was too little love in it. It was a very loveless magazine. They never took enough account of the feeling that is always in SF. View quote
Brian Aldiss
Let's have a toast-to the future generation of consumers, however many heads or assholes they have! View quote
Brian Aldiss
To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important. View quote
Brian Aldiss
Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry weekend. Of course, some might say, 'you've made your own bed - now you must lie in it!' But, while fully accepting that dictum, I'm not yet quite prepared to lie down... (Brian Aldiss)
It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us. View quote
Brian Aldiss
Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume. View quote
Brian Aldiss
I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete. View quote
Brian Aldiss
An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely. View quote
Brian Aldiss