Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume. Brian Aldiss More Quotes by Brian Aldiss More Quotes From Brian Aldiss To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important. Brian Aldiss standards shapes important My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' Brian Aldiss hubris definitions fiction When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents' limitations. Brian Aldiss illusion parent young I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete. Brian Aldiss objections obsolete morality The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition. Brian Aldiss political belief people If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now. Brian Aldiss century lasts people The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness. Brian Aldiss apes achievement lying 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. Brian Aldiss emeralds chinese wall It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us. Brian Aldiss failing goes-on thinking Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name. Brian Aldiss pride writing reality It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter. Brian Aldiss stay-strong creativity writing Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places. Brian Aldiss unexpected letters people The day of the android has dawned. Brian Aldiss androids That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar. Brian Aldiss roles break artist Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction - it's always playing with how much the human mind can encompass. Brian Aldiss madness humans mind Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him! Brian Aldiss made men world Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth. Brian Aldiss growing growth law I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity. Brian Aldiss components wells identity 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 Brian Aldiss creativity men years Fantasy is literature for teenagers. Brian Aldiss fantasy teenager literature