The day of the android has dawned.

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

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

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.

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.