Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode.

The day of the android has dawned.

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

Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.

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