I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

by Harlan Ellison

I intend to keep writing stories that piss people off, that tell the particular kind of truth I think is valid, that will make me feel more and more like a Writer of Stature, which I honestly think I am, really, I mean it, I don’t doubt it for a second dammit, so stop giggling! Stories that will make Dr. Shedd sniff the air and make Lester smile as he thinks, “The kid’s coming along all right.”

In that instant, I felt terribly calm. Surrounded by madness, surrounded by hunger, surrounded by everything but death,