Quotes from Harlan Ellison

for a people with a heritage of enslavement, evil is a concept of those who forged the shackles, not those who wore them.

I offer you the words of the Polish poet Edward Yashinsky, who said, "Fear not your enemies, for they can only kill you; fear not your friends, for they can only betray you. Fear only the indifferent, who permit the killers and betrayers to walk safely on the earth.

Gespräche behagten ihm ebenso wenig wie das Leben.

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

Man denkt sich nicht mit der psychischen Brechstange in jemanden hinein.

He had discovered the scents and aromas of a spring that was eternally one day away.

Also England is a good country for introverts; they have a place in society for the introvert, which the United States has not.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." S. J. LEC

water cascading down her back, across her thighs, cool against her belly, her head laid back and white water bubbling through the shining black veil of her hair, touching each strand, silkily shining it with moisture; her eyes closed in simple pleasure; that face, the right face, the special face, the certain face of the woman he had always looked for without looking, hunted silently for, without acknowledging the search; lusted for, without feeling worthy of the hunger.

Humor should not be dissected because nothing lives through dissection.

He withdrew, murmuring to hell with you. And added, brightly, but then you're there, aren't you. The

Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child." –ROBERT A. HEINLEIN, 1973

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

when we lose our commitment to accuracy, honesty, and justice, we lose our ability to make a difference, because we also lose our vision of what is possible. Harlan

Awesome is the word one uses for Eleanor Roosevelt, Mt. Kilimanjaro, and pitching a no-hit no-run ballgame. Not available for the crappy cheese quesadilla you had this afternoon, nor for anybody who Dances with the Stars. With or without a wooden leg.)

He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

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

As one disillusioned ex-Trek official recently said, "You know why they cremated Gene? They were afraid people would come to piss on the grave.

Ellison's Theorem: the further right your position, the less telling your satire. A corollary of which is that you can't lampoon anywhere near where you stand, because you'd annihilate your own troops.

But good old Albert, aka Vic, whooped and howled like a Belgian wolfhound getting a glucose enema.

Solange das, was jemand glaubt, ihn nicht ins Irrenhaus oder ins Gefängnis bringt, gibt es keinen Grund, warum es weniger akzeptabel sein sollte als das, was wir, äh, normalen Leute als Realität betrachten.

International Order of Odd Fellows

And then we were all lifted and hurled away from there, down back the way we had come, around a bend, into a darkway we had never explored, over terrain that was ruined and filled with broken glass and rotting cables and rusted metal and far away further than any of us had ever been

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