200 Quotes by Harlan Ellison

First there was light, and then there was no-light. First there was heat, and then there was no-heat. And – First there was love, and then there was no-love. But in its place did not come the absence of love, the emptiness that the going of light and heat had left. Another moved in to take its place. In its place came hate.

Of all liars, the smoothest and most convincing is memory.

They are stories I wrote because my friends are gone, a lot of them, and if you can’t be angry about it, how the hell much did you care to begin with?

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

The problem isn’t what to say about the incredible Ursula Le Guin, it’s where to start.

Surrounded by madness, surrounded by hunger, surrounded by everything but death, I knew death was our only way out.

I know that my true friend will appear after my death, and my sweetheart died before I was born.

I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that’s me.

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