The shuffle only demonstrated people’s fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition. - Brian Aldiss

What we see today is the too-easy acceptance of sf. The sharp idiom we created has blurred to become one of the bland flavourings of mass media; the unembarrassed muse we espoused is one of the jades of television. And the younger writers now writing have an entirely different approach to their art. They have found how easy it is to rely on formula, or how simply success can come through self-advertisement.

You know that if you had been in charge of creation you would have found some medium less heart-breaking than Time to stage it in.

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