Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones.

I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.

While the conscious mind writes the autobiography of our species, the unconscious mind does most of the work

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions.

The human mind can take in millions of pieces of information of which it can be consciously aware of about 40