“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.” MindHumansMadnessAttractionHuman Mind Author:Brian Aldiss
“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 Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind... the underworld of the century's imaginings.” KnowsMindAgeUnderstandingBlackWhiteCenturyRedCoffeeBreadTargetApocalypseAbyssSpidersUnderworldDaily BreadConveyingSplintersOur Daily Bread Author:Brian Aldiss
“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.” MindAbleNightSleepClearOur LivesPalmsSkulls Author:Brian Aldiss
“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” MenYearsMindYoungLeftBehindsCreativityLandReturnSeedsYoung ManNativeMisfortunesLeft BehindBrianMiragesNative Land Author:Brian Aldiss
“Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)” MindViolenceBarefoot Author:Brian Aldiss
“Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I dont know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind.” IfsKnowsLoveShouldMindLittlesFeelingsDreamSeemsAbleNightStuffSleepClearOur LivesInstinctLipsAttractionReleaseDawnHoneyWakingPalmsInheritanceInsomniaSandwichesSkullsSleep And Dream Author:Brian Aldiss
“I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.” MindBelieveMayI CanHelpingPsychologicalSubconsciousSubconscious MindScientific Truth Author:Brian Aldiss
