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… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him! — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
