“To me, there's nothing on earth other than women. It's why I get out of bed every morning.”

Source: Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25

1990 interview, as quoted in The New York Times (28 June 2018) https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/06/28/us/ap-us-obit-harlan-ellison.html

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants

...y lo que me hace levantarme por las mañanas sigue siendo la espera de lo que está por llegar y no se anuncia, es la espera de lo inesperado, y no ceso de fantasear con lo que ha de venir.
Source: Todas las Almas [All Souls] (1989), p. 137

Variant: the courage it took to get out of bed each
morning
to face the same things
over and over
was
enormous.
Source: You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

City Aphorisms (1984)

Source: The Last Olympian