"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."
— Brian W. Aldiss

"Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name."
— Brian W. Aldiss