"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)
"The silence seemed to carry as much weight as that deep mass of foliage which covered all the land on the day side of the planet. It was a silence built of millions upon millions of years, intensifying as the sun overhead poured forth more and more energy in the first stages of its decline. Not that the silence signified lack of life. Life was everywhere, life on a formidable scale. But the increased solar radiation that had brought the extinction of most of the animal kingdom had spelt the triumph of plant life. Everywhere, in a thousand forms and guises, the plants ruled. And vegetables have no voices." (Brian W Aldiss," Nomansland", 1961)
"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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