Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinleinwas an American science-fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was an influential and controversial author of the genre in his time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 July 1907
CountryUnited States of America
laughing so-sad humans
Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.
grateful smell widows
Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell.
insects specialization
Specialization is for insects.
mistress instinct forbidden
Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.
hard-work thinking play
Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.
father cities never-settle
Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.
fighting animal spirit
An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.
life-is-short years long
Life is short, but the years are long.
socialist bloody
Ayn Rand is a bloody socialist compared to me.
sight female details
I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual code and starting fresh. Most philosophers haven't the courage for this; they swallow the basics of the present code--monogamy, family pattern, continence, body taboos, conventional restrictions on intercourse, and so forth--then fiddle with details...even such piffle as discussing whether the female breast is an obscene sight! (p.365)
gratitude resentment euphemism
Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.
flower butterfly self
Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
daughter men law
Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law.
motivational men monkeys
The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.