You must never be afraid to go there..

That's probably one of my biggest gripes with the Internet - that it settles for mediocrity and disinformation, which puts all information on the sam….

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

I cannot pay attention to what people say about my work. For me, personally, I am just this shards-and-ashes human being, who really gets upset when ….

Time is like a river flowing endlessly through the universe. And if you poled your flatboat in that river you might fight your way against the curren….

I think [religion] is presumptuous and I think it is silly, because it makes you believe that you are less than what you can be. As long as you can b….

A man may truly live in his dreams, his noblest dreams, but only, only if he is worthy of those dreams..

I think love and sex are separate and only vaguely similar. Like the word bear and the word bare. You can get in trouble mistaking one for the other..

There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who eats chicken croquettes, if I can find them….

Writing is a holy chore..

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..

There is no nobler chore in the craft of writing than holding up the mirror of reality and turning it slightly, so we have a new and different percep….

Uh, excuse me, sir, I, uh, don't known how to uh, to uh, tell you this, but you were three minutes late. The schedule is a little, uh, bit off." He g….

Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heret….

I made as many mistakes as anybody else. I sound as if I'm an egomaniac, and I suppose in some ways I'm filled with hubris because I know how good I ….

People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the ….

Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself..

When you're all alone out there, on the end of the typewriter, with each new story a new appraisal by the world of whether you can still get it up or….

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver..

They minute people fall in love they become liars..

I am not one of these people who instantly takes umbrage when he's corrected or - I love being corrected..