Harlan EllisonI don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid. ✨ Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.361Thought
Harlan EllisonI don't know how you perceive my mission as a writer, but for me it is not a responsibility to reaffirm your concretized myths and provincial prejudices. It is not my job to lull … ▶372ReadingTime
Harlan EllisonI 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 (2014)… ▶373LoveThought
Harlan EllisonWith the Internet, the greatest disseminator of bad data and bad information the universe has ever known, it's become impossible to trust any news from any source at all, because … ▶375Humanity
Harlan EllisonI was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinki… ▶377Thought
Harlan EllisonEveryone is entitled to an *informed* opinion.377Time
Harlan EllisonK 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 (2014). Strange Wine: Stories, p.102, O… ▶367Reflection
Harlan EllisonI 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 … ▶345HopeLifeLove
Harlan EllisonWe walked for some time, and grew to know each other, as best as we'd allow. These are some of the high points. They lack continuity. I don't apologize. I merely pointed it out, a… ▶313SadnessTimeTruth
Harlan EllisonThe ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired. ✨ Harlan Ellison (2014). Stalking the Nightmare, p.29, Open … ▶369Reading
Harlan EllisonIt 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 o… ▶314LifeLoveReading
Harlan EllisonThe real name for 'science' is magic. ✨ Harlan Ellison (2014). Troublemakers, p.238, Open Road Media271Life
Harlan EllisonHATE. 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 WO… ▶326HumanityReading
Harlan EllisonThey minute people fall in love they become liars. ✨ Harlan Ellison (2014). Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled, p.20, Open Road Media326HumanityLove
Harlan EllisonIn these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony. ✨ Harlan Ellison (1989). Harlan Ellison's watching315HumanityReading
Harlan EllisonI will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes such cupidity will send you scampering to your dictionary: I will call such beh… ▶326HopePhilosophyTime
Harlan EllisonWhen you're all alone out there, on the end of the typewriter, with each new story a new appraisal by the world of whether you can still get it up or not, arrogance and self-estee… ▶348Reflection
Harlan EllisonI've only been an asshole to assholes!282Life
Harlan EllisonMy philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths. ✨ Harlan Ellison (2014). The Harlan Ellison Hornbook, p.208, Op… ▶251DeathLifePhilosophy
Harlan EllisonA man may truly live in his dreams, his noblest dreams, but only, only if he is worthy of those dreams. ✨ Delusion for a Dragon Slayer. Short story by Harlan Ellison, 1966.<… ▶295Hope
Harlan EllisonAnyone who can not write should.252Thought
Harlan EllisonI have but nothing to say to young girls. They're fine to look at, in the way I would look at a case filled with Shang dynasty glazes, but expecting to carry on a conversation wit… ▶3310LoveReading
Harlan EllisonYou're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.253Humor
Harlan EllisonWriting is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you – as if you haven't been told a million times already – that writing is harde… ▶276ReadingTime
Harlan EllisonTo say more, is to say less. ✨ Harlan Ellison (2016). Harlan Ellison's Watching, p.126, Hachette UK266Reflection
Harlan EllisonThus, 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 pu… ▶211ReadingThought
Harlan EllisonLove ain't nothing but sex misspelled. ✨ Harlan Ellison (1975). Deathbird stories: a Pantheon of modern gods, HarperCollins Publishers267DeathLove
Harlan EllisonThe world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles. ✨ Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 1998.223Politics
Harlan EllisonNow begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself. ✨ Harlan Ellison (2014). Troublemakers, p.182, Open Road Media256Life
Harlan EllisonI refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years, and I'm now beginning to learn how to do the job w… ▶202Humor
