Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison

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

Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison

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

Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison

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

Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison

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

Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison

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

Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison

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

Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison

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

Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison

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

Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison

I have no mouth, and I must scream.

Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison

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.'

Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison

To say more, is to say less.

Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison

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

Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison

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.

Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison

I don't think I've ever really been a science fiction writer. I'm closer to a fantasist, speculative fiction, whatever, but labels are ultimately derogatory, and I eschew them as best I can.

Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison

Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.

Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison

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

Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison

I would jump at the chance to work with the inordinately-talented J.J. Abrams on a new 'Star Trek' film.

Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison

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

Harlan Ellison
Harlan Ellison

I never know what I'm going to talk about until I get on stage. I never give the same lecture twice, which is why I'll have people follow me from place to place like Deadheads.