H. F. Ellis Quotes

By the time you finish reading this sentence, a Boeing jetliner will take off or land somewhere in the world.

Writing is basically a job for people who like punching themselves in the face, I’m pretty sure.

What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness.

Being a son of the pastor, I was never allowed to play Joseph or any of the big parts for political reasons.

When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.

And just as two wrongs don't make a right, rage against offenders is probably the worst way to try to correct them.

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

All of my books come from pain.

This is a couple that actually loves, respects & appreciates each other.

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

Disappear Here. The syringe fills with blood. You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters. Wonder if he's for sale. People are afraid to merge. To merge.

Its a strange world. Lets keep it that way.

My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

Tradition - one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

Most things worth having require some sacrifice, usually more than you expect.

After a while you learn that everything stops.

So I'd better stop my whining and help myself cope better with even the worst Adversities.

The goal of all life is to have a ball.

Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Liberty is always unfinished business

It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.

Stephen King says that if you forget an idea, then it can't have been any good. He means he, not you. You are not Stephen King. Do not attempt to emulate Stephen King at home.

You learn to move on without the people you love.

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.

I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.

Nobody gives a rat's nipple about me.

If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.

Trying to find a human side to the character is a way to give them a chance to have people like them.

Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.

In real life a right-angled triangle is very unlikely to have a square on its hypotenuse.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.