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
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. – Brian Aldiss
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. – Brian Aldiss
The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where fragments of great wrecks were drifting, perhaps, and helpless men were rocked upon them into a sleep as deep as the unfathomable waters. – Charles Dickens, Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son