To Be A Standard Shape Is Not

Obeying An Inalienable Law, Things Grew, Growing Riotous And Strange In Their Impulse For Growth.

I Have Had Wealth, Rank And Power, But, If These Were All I Had, How Wretched I Should Be.

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

Civilization Is The Distance Man Has Placed Between Himself And His Excreta.

That's The Artist's Role - To Strike Out Always For Something New, To Break Away, To Defy, To... Grapple With The Unfamiliar.