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It is at night ... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.
— Brian W. Aldiss
I think I'm undergoing a Lyra-2-type paranoia onslaught, but I'll be okay again in a minute.
— Brian W. Aldiss
I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.
— Brian Aldiss
Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.
— Brian Aldiss
Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.
— Brian Aldiss
Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.
— Brian Aldiss
That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to ... grapple with the unfamiliar.
— Brian Aldiss
Laintal Ay, you also have an inwardness to your nature. I feel it. That inwardness will distress you, yet it gives you life, it is life.
— Brian W. Aldiss
That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.
— Brian Aldiss
I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.
— Brian Aldiss
If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.
— Brian Aldiss
I think therefore I am;' I dream therefore I become
— Brian W. Aldiss
Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.
— Brian Aldiss
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
— Brian W. Aldiss
The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.
— Brian Aldiss
-"Expansion to your ego, friend".-"At your expense". — Brian W. Aldiss
The day of the android has dawned.
— Brian Aldiss
It's a funny thing in my job: you remain perpetually lonely in a world where loneliness is the rarest commodity.
— Brian W. Aldiss
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.
— Brian Aldiss
Fantasy is literature for teenagers.
— Brian Aldiss
There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.
— Brian W. Aldiss
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.
— Brian W. Aldiss
An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.
— Brian W. Aldiss
However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.
— Brian Aldiss
Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.
— Brian W. Aldiss
Whatever terrific events may inform our lives, it always comes to that in the end; we just want to lie down.
— Brian W. Aldiss
Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.
— Brian W. Aldiss
What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?
— Brian Aldiss
Waves climbed the slope of the beach, fell back, and came again.
— Brian W. Aldiss
This shall be home, where danger was my cradle, and all we have learned will guard us!
— Brian W. Aldiss
Let's have a toast-to the future generation of consumers, however many heads or assholes they have!
— Brian Aldiss
In role-playing games, SF and fantasy have exploded into psychotherapy.
— Brian W. Aldiss
He could see it glinting at his fingertips, ready to be fashioned.
— Brian W. Aldiss
He began talking to an imagined woman, achieving an eloquence that was never his when he was face to face with anyone else.
— Brian W. 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.
— Brian Aldiss
To read is to strike a blow for culture
— Brian W. Aldiss
