Storyteller Quotes by Harlan Ellison

Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?

— Harlan Ellison

They change scapegoats at the networks more regularly than some people change socks.

— Harlan Ellison

They minute people fall in love they become liars.

— Harlan Ellison

Repent, Harlequin," said the Ticktock Man. "Get stuffed," the Harlequin replied.

— Harlan Ellison

“Living under the land, under the sea, in the belly of AM, whom we created...”

— Harlan Ellison

I have no mouth. And I must scream.

— Harlan Ellison

There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon.

— Harlan Ellison

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

— Harlan Ellison

“There are forces in the world today, Mr. Winsocki, that are invisibly working to make us all carbon copies of one another. Forces that…

— Harlan Ellison

“Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.”…

— Harlan Ellison

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

— Harlan Ellison

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

— Harlan Ellison