When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.
I can’t 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 it’s psychological truth.
It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity – thats a much tougher matter.
Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.
The day of the android has dawned.
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind. However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity. – – Afterword to “Hothouse” Brian Aldiss.
Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It’s patriotic to overconsume.
I’ve no objection to morality, except that it’s obsolete.
If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn’t be where we are now.
The shuffle only demonstrated people’s fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.
However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.
The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period.
When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it’s own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.
Fantasy is literature for teenagers.
The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is ‘Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.’
I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.