200 Quotes by Harlan Ellison

People don’t die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that’s Progress, isn’t it? Isn’t it?

Any writer who pretends to a disaffection for recognition, I think they’re being duplicitous.

I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I’ve been at it pretty much 50 years, and I’m now beginning to learn how to do the job well.

If you let the image of the messenger get in the way of whatever message there may be, however large or small, that’s your problem, not his.

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

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

Nobody escapes age and gravity.

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.