56 Quotes by Brian Aldiss

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.

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume.

Let's have a toast-to the future generation of consumers, however many heads or assholes they have!

What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?

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.

Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.

Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry weekend. Of course, some might say, 'you've made your own bed - now you must lie in it!' But, while fully accepting that dictum, I'm not yet quite prepared to lie down...