Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. – Brian Aldiss
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay. – Brian Aldiss
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. – Brian Aldiss
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. – Brian Aldiss
It is wonderful that five thousand years have now elapsed since the creation of the world, and still it is undecided whether or not there has ever been an instance of the spirit of any person appearing after death. All argument is against it; but all belief is for it. – Samuel Johnson, quoted by James Boswell