Harland Ellison

Writer Harlan Ellison collects quotes about writing and hangs them in his labyrinthine, 4,300-square-foot home in Oak Forest Canyon in Sherman Oaks. Among his favorites, German poet Gunter Eich's: "Be uncomfortable; be sand, not oil, in the machinery of the world." Once called "the mad dog of L.A.

Writer Harlan Ellison collects quotes about writing and hangs them in his labyrinthine, 4,300-square-foot home in Oak Forest Canyon in Sherman Oaks. Among his favorites, German poet Gunter Eich's: "Be uncomfortable; be sand, not oil, in the machinery of the world." Once called "the mad dog of L.A.