51 Quotes by Harry Harrison

They've been through three scripts, 14 rewrites. They can't get it right,

Smith put this woman through a horrific and terrifying ordeal and, although his sentence will not erase what has happened, I am pleased that it reflects the seriousness of his crime.

Ever see a plant with teeth – that bite? I don’t think you want to. You’d have to be on Pyrrus and that means you would be dead within seconds of leaving the ship.

Every day should be unwrapped as a gift.

How can you kill something that never existed? We’re all winners in the ovarian derby, yet I never heard anyone crying about the – if you will excuse the biological term – the sperm who were the losers in the race.

It is amazing the things people will believe if you catch them early enough.

Darling, the history of medicine is the history of the violation of natural law. The Church – and that includes the Protestant as well as the Catholic – tried to stop the use of anesthetics because it was natural law for a woman to have pain while giving birth. And it was natural law for people to die of sickness. And natural law that the body not be cut open and repaired.

They are living symbols of the state of decay of our culture, just as this wasteland is a vastly more important symbol, that is why I am here.

Everyone has got their own ideas and they push them and say to hell with everyone else. That’s the history of the human race. It got us on top, only now it is pushing us off. The thing is that people will put up with any kind of discomfort, and dying babies, and old age at thirty as long as it has always been that way. Try to get them to change and they fight you, even while they’re dying, saying it was good enough for grandpa so it’s good enough for me. Bango, dead.