“ 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
“ 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
“ If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you. Harlan Ellison
“ The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, th… Harlan Ellison
“ It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with seriou… Harlan Ellison
“ HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED… Harlan Ellison
“ Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where do you get your ideas? I purposely mishear thing… Harlan Ellison
“ Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself. 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
“ David Gerrold never wrote an episode that Gene thought was shootable … then how do we account for something titled The Trouble with Tribbles?) Harlan Ellison
“ Did you have one of those days today, like a nail in the foot? Did the pterodactyl corpse dropped by the ghost of your mother from the spectral Hindenburg forever circling the Earth come smashing thro… Harlan Ellison
“ Science fiction used to be a dangerous literature. Now, it is a very commercial genre, and whatever dangers might still lurk within seem to have been safely sanitized for the marketplace. The real cri… Harlan Ellison
“ I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Witho… Harlan Ellison
“ Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against the current and travel upstream into the past. Or go with the… Harlan Ellison
