“There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.”

“A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?”

“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.”

“Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.”

“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 childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.”

“Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.”