It was a superlative joy of my long life to have worked with Leonard Nimoy, who became my friend, and many others at ‘Star Trek.’ Harlan Ellison Read Quote
I write a kind of surreal fantasy, but they can’t put ‘surreal fantasy’ on a paperback. Harlan Ellison Read Quote
I don’t remember anyone who could stand being in my company for more than five hours without running into the street. Harlan Ellison Read Quote
Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race. Harlan Ellison Read Quote
People keep saying that books will never die out. Well, books may never die out, but hundreds of thousands of individual writers will, and for them, it’s as if books did die out. Harlan Ellison Read Quote
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. Harlan Ellison Read Quote
Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future. Harlan Ellison Read Quote
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. Harlan Ellison Read Quote
