"If a machine had broken down, it would have been quickly replaced. But who can replace a man?" (Brian W Aldiss, "Who Can Replace a Man?", 1958)
"Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts." (Brian Aldiss, Penguin Science Fiction, 1961)
"What was that epigram that he had trotted forth too often, about civilization being the distance man placed between himself and his excreta? But it was nearer the truth to say that civilization was the distance man had placed between himself and everything else." (Brian W Aldiss, "The Dark Light Years", 1964)
"The waking brain is perpetually lapped by the unconscious." (Brian W Aldiss, "Man in His Time", 1966)
"Science fiction is the search for a definition of man and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post-Gothic mould." (Brian W Aldiss, "Billion Year Spree: The True History of Science Fiction", 1973)
"Over most of the universe, God was spread in fossil radiation, too old, too thin." (Brian W. Aldiss, "Non-Isotropic", 1978)
"We take foul medicines to improve our health; so we must entertain foul thoughts on occasion, to strengthen wisdom." (Brian W Aldiss, "The Small Stones of Tu Fu", 1978)
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