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They change scapegoats at the networks more regularly than some people change socks. — Harlan Ellison

The real name for 'science' is magic. — Harlan Ellison

A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur. — Harlan Ellison

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. — Harlan Ellison

I've only been an asshole to assholes! — Harlan Ellison

I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the pasture without rhythm or sense. — Harlan Ellison

Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled. — Harlan Ellison

If there was a sweet Jesus and if there was a God, the God was AM. — Harlan Ellison

I am responsible for myself. I am exactly who I eventually wanted myself to be, I guess, without consciously knowing what I wanted me to be. — Harlan Ellison

We talked across each other, our conversation at right angles, only meeting in the intersections of silence at story's end. — Harlan Ellison

Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion. — Harlan Ellison

DIscuss "narking" as a character flaw. — Harlan Ellison

Style, like taste, is resistant to lucid definition; however, both, as living things should be, are subject to constant change. — Harlan Ellison

The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired. — Harlan Ellison

If you let the image of the messenger get in the way of whatever message there may be, however large or small, that's your problem, not his. — Harlan Ellison

Humor should not be dissected because nothing lives through dissection. — Harlan Ellison

If one is unable to buy Courvoisier, one should forcibly restrain oneself from serving strawberries Romanoff for dessert. — Harlan Ellison

They are stories I wrote because my friends are gone, a lot of them, and if you can't be angry about it, how the hell much did you care to begin with? — Harlan Ellison

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race. — Harlan Ellison

K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere. — Harlan Ellison

I have no mouth, and I must scream. — Harlan Ellison

I can't picture in my mind three hundred and sixty thousand dollars ... When I think of it, all I can see in my mind is a big nickel. — Harlan Ellison

There is only one real evil in the world: mediocrity. — Harlan Ellison

Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself. — Harlan Ellison

In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy ... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony. — Harlan Ellison

be careful of monsters with teeth — Harlan Ellison

The solitary creator, dreaming his or her dream, unaided, seems to me to be the only artist we can trust. — Harlan Ellison

The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity. — Harlan Ellison

There are some people who just shouldn't be allowed to fool around with love. — Harlan Ellison

She thinks we were all killed when they made the Great Sweep, but I escaped in the mud. — Harlan Ellison

The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer. — Harlan Ellison

I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me. — Harlan Ellison

Writing is a holy chore. — Harlan Ellison

In my ugly, elitist opinion we are not all entitled to voice our opinions, we are entitled to pass along our informed opinions. — Harlan Ellison

Repent, Harlequin," said the Ticktock Man. "Get stuffed," the Harlequin replied. — Harlan Ellison

They minute people fall in love they become liars. — Harlan Ellison

When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three. — Harlan Ellison

I am not one of these people who instantly takes umbrage when he's corrected or - I love being corrected. — Harlan Ellison

Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit. — Harlan Ellison

We had reached the moment of final nightness. — Harlan Ellison

The machine masturbated and we had to take it or die. — Harlan Ellison

You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy. — Harlan Ellison

I see all. I hear all. I know all. And I spend a great deal of time in the bathroom. — Harlan Ellison

To say more is to say less. — Harlan Ellison

You must never be afraid to go there. — Harlan Ellison

Any writer who pretends to a disaffection for recognition, I think they're being duplicitous. — Harlan Ellison

Of all liars, the smoothest and most convincing is memory — Harlan Ellison

There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon. — Harlan Ellison

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver. — Harlan Ellison

The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles. — Harlan Ellison

I look upon those who assure me they had a 'happy childhood' as either pathological liars, or pariahs. — Harlan Ellison

You can live in your dreams, but only if you are worthy of them. — Harlan Ellison

Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste? — Harlan Ellison

People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it? — Harlan Ellison

I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight. — Harlan Ellison

Possibly the only dismaying aspect of excellence is that it makes living in a world of mediocrity an ongoing prospect of living hell. — Harlan Ellison

Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself. — Harlan Ellison

I will live to piss in the open mouths or the open graves of my enemies, whichever comes first. — Harlan Ellison

You show me someone who'll eat lima beans without being at gunpoint, I'll show you a pervert! — Harlan Ellison

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published. — Dan Simmons

I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other. — Harlan Ellison

If you put your hand in my pocket, you'll drag back six inches of bloody stump. — Harlan Ellison

Anyone who can not write should. — Harlan Ellison

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid — Harlan Ellison