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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
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
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
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
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
Anyone who can not write should.
— Harlan Ellison
