HARLAN ELLISON

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

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

I have no mouth, and I must scream.

To say more, is to say less.

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.

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

I write a kind of surreal fantasy, but they can't put 'surreal fantasy' on a paperback.

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.

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.'

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.'

Nobody escapes age and gravity.

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

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

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

There's some things that no amount of money can get me to do.

Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter.

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'm like a snake sleeping on a rock. I won't bother you unless you poke a stick at me.

I don't remember anyone who could stand being in my company for more than five hours without running into the street.

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

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

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

I'm a storyteller. If I have that on my precis when I go, 'Storyteller,' I'm satisfied with that.

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