The quest for pattern is a basic instinct. — Brian Aldiss

"I cant 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 its psychological truth."

"Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem."

"Aldiss’s second law of thermo-linguistics states that what is most popular is rarely best and that what is best is rarely most popular."

"The Badlands were extensive. Ancient bomb craters and soil erosion joined hands here; man’s talent for war, coupled with his inability to manage forested land, had produced thousands of square miles of temperate purgatory, where nothing moved but dust."

"You were fool enough to think that one hundred and fifty million years either way made an ounce of difference to the muddle of thoughts in a man’s cerebral vortex."

"Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction — its always playing with how much the human mind can encompass."