Harry Harrison Quotes

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

Every day should be unwrapped as a gift.

Morning sickness and bank robbery doesn't mix well.

If you want the little luxuries of life you have to be prepared to pay for them.

Liberation by destruction was on the way! We would free them even if we had to kill them all to do it!

I always get the best advice from myself.

Intelligence resembles insanity only on the stupid.

I am seventy-five years old and I reached this venerable state by staying out of trouble, keeping my mouth shut and not volunteering, just like I learned in the Army.

One time we had the whole world in our hands, but we ate it and burned it and it's gone now.

We got a plague of people, a disease of people infesting the world. We got more people who are living longer. Less people have to be born, that's the answer. We got death control - we got to match it with birth control.

Darling, the history of medicine is the history of the violation of natural law. The Church - and that includes the Protestant as well as the Catholic - tried to stop the use of anesthetics because it was natural law for a woman to have pain while giving birth. And it was natural law for people to die of sickness. And natural law that the body not be cut open and repaired.

Because of the power shortage and lack of replacement parts there was only one elevator running in the Empire State Building, and this one went only as high as the twenty-fifth floor. After that you walked.

You can't stop the world and get off, so you just have to learn to live on it.

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.

He didn't say so but Andy agreed with the bodyguard. A good-looking bird like this one didn't have to kill anyone. What she did she did for D's and if a guy gave her too much trouble she'd just walk out and find someone else with money. Not murder.

Birth control doesn't mean no children. It just means that people have a choice how they want to live. Like rutting, unthinking, breeding animals - or like reasoning creatures. Will a married couple have one, two or three children - whatever number will keep the world population steady and provide a full life of opportunity for everyone? Or will they have four, five or six, unthinking and uncaring, and raise them in hunger and cold and misery? Like that world out there,

...so great was his feeling of rightness that he could ignore the dark shadow of the future.

Everyone has got their own ideas and they push them and say to hell with everyone else. That's the history of the human race. It got us on top, only now it is pushing us off. The thing is that people will put up with any kind of discomfort, and dying babies, and old age at thirty as long as it has always been that way. Try to get them to change and they fight you, even while they're dying, saying it was good enough for grandpa so it's good enough for me. Bango, dead.

I went to sleep with the tape player whispering softly in my ears such ego-building epigrams as, 'You are better than everyone else and you know it, and people who don't know it had better watch out,' and 'They are all fools and if you were in charge things would be different, and why aren't you in charge, it's easy enough.

The only reason that the Vikings settled in Vinland is because we decided to make a motion picture showing how the Vikings settled in Vinland.

But doing something means that people must change, make an effort, use their minds, which is what most people do not like to do.