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.

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

There's some things that no amount of money can get me to do.

I don't remember anyone who could stand being in my company for more than five hours without running into the street.

I write a kind of surreal fantasy, but they can't put 'surreal fantasy' on a paperback.

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

Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter.

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.

I'm a storyteller. If I have that on my precis when I go, 'Storyteller,' I'm satisfied with that.

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

Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.

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