You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.
Harlan Ellison
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
I'm like a snake sleeping on a rock. I won't bother you unless you poke a stick at me.
I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
You watch enough TV, and very soon the inside of your head has become a vast, arid plain, across which you cannot detect the passage of a thought.
History will decide if I'm a villain or a hero.
All you have to do is look out around you at the good things you've done, and you'll know how good you are.
We've got technological wonders around us, and we've used them to abrogate all responsibility for everything in our lives.
I go to bed angry every night, and I get up angrier every morning.
To say more, is to say less.
I have no mouth, and I must scream.
I'm real tall when I stand on my charisma.
Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams.
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.
I write a kind of surreal fantasy, but they can't put 'surreal fantasy' on a paperback.
Science fiction and fantasy is a kind of literature that embodies the highest aspirations of the human race.
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.
There might be children in Somalia or the Arctic who have never heard of 'Hamlet' or the 'Great Gatsby.' But you can bet they know 'Tarzan.'
Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
Nobody escapes age and gravity.
I don't remember anyone who could stand being in my company for more than five hours without running into the street.
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.
Five thousand Don Hecks are not worth one Neal Adams.
I'm a storyteller. If I have that on my precis when I go, 'Storyteller,' I'm satisfied with that.
I would jump at the chance to work with the inordinately-talented J.J. Abrams on a new 'Star Trek' film.
When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.
There's some things that no amount of money can get me to do.
I'm not nearly as significant as Ralph Nader or the local plumber.
Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter.
Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future.
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.'
