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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"That first novel of mine, Non-Stop, is directly attributable to Heinlein. His "Common Sense" seemed to me such a good story, but bereft of any human feelings. I thought long about that story, and then I thought how wonderful it would be to write about a spaceship in which people have been imprisoned for generations and to put in something of the human feeling. So that novel is directly attributable to Heinlein. I thought, in my youthful arrogance, that I could do it better — I didnt! I thought I could do it differently, and I think I did do it differently. And I suppose that on the whole, Ive concentrated on doing things differently ever since."