51 Quotes by Harry Harrison

The Welfare ration cards took care of everything, everything that kept you alive and just alive enough to hate it.

Women! They insist on mixing everything up together. Perhaps they operate better that way, but it is very hard on those of us who find that keeping emotion and logic separate produces sounder thinking.

Gratitude you can’t expect, a salary you can. It’s a job.

Snorting with disgust, Meta stamped out.

All laws and ideas are historical and relative, not absolute. They are relevant to their particular time and place.

We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society. It was easier in the old days, of course, and society had more rats when the rules were looser, just as old wooden buildings have more rats than concrete buildings. But there are rats in the building now as well. Now that society is all ferrocrete and stainless steel there are fewer gaps in the joints. It takes a very smart rat indeed to find these openings. Only a stainless steel rat can be at home in this environment...

So they think wrong. Am I to blame because the world is full of fatheads? You know well enough that birth control has nothing to do with killing babies. In fact it saves them. Which is the bigger crime – letting kids die of disease and starvation or seeing that the unwanted ones don’t get born in the first place?

In all cultures mothers try to shape sons in their female image. For their own good. The boys resist – and the rite of passage helps this resistance. There is always symbolism involved, because symbols are a way to represent the myths that underlie every culture.

Let me tell you, I may look old but that’s just because of my age.