The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine... And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

Disney in the studio commissary joking about making a pornographic animated film featuring Disney characters. Since he has used the pseudonym mainly for works he wants to distance himself from it may be understood to mean that "this work is for the birds" or that it is of as much use as shoes to a bird. "

On August 31 he lost his temper with the community and with Willis for not defending him:

"Does not anyone READ WHAT I WROTE within fifteen minutes of learning of this? Does not anyone wonder why if it was such a piggish thing I did as one of those jerkwad blogs calls it Connie Willis hasn’t after twenty-five years of “friendship” not returned my call on Monday … or responded to the Fedex packet of my posting here on Monday which Fedex advises me Harlan Ellison received at 2:20 pm on Tuesday?" ".

His principal genre is speculative fiction. He was editor and anthologist for two ground-breaking science fiction anthologies Dangerous Visions and Again Dangerous Visions. Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27 1934) is an American writer.