Quotes from Harlan Ellison

I go to bed angry every night, and I get up angrier every morning.

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

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

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

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

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

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

Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future.

I'm real tall when I stand on my charisma.

There might be children in Somalia or the Arctic who have never heard of 'Hamlet' or the 'Great Gatsby.' But you can bet they know 'Tarzan.'

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

Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams.

My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration, and ignoble deaths.

History will decide if I'm a villain or a hero.

All you have to do is look out around you at the good things you've done, and you'll know how good you are.

I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

Five thousand Don Hecks are not worth one Neal Adams.

Nobody escapes age and gravity.

We've got technological wonders around us, and we've used them to abrogate all responsibility for everything in our lives.

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

It was a superlative joy of my long life to have worked with Leonard Nimoy, who became my friend, and many others at 'Star Trek.'

Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.

People keep saying that books will never die out. Well, books may never die out, but hundreds of thousands of individual writers will, and for them, it's as if books did die out.

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