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
gasoline enough dynamite
ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.
order
A motion to adjourn is always in order.
men potatoes
Men are not potatoes!
real writing ulysses
Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?
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)
baby cutting lessons
If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?
divinity assuming satan
If Satan should ever replace God he would find it necessary to assume the attributes of Divinity.
witty alcohol political
Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.
girl butterfly mom-and-daughter
Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse,
flower butterfly self
Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
often-is secret tails
He had learned that close-held secrets could often be cracked by going all the way to the top and there making himself unbearably unpleasant. He knew that such twisting of the tiger's tail was dangerous, for he understood the psychopathology of great power.
echoes talking argument
Talking with a Martian is something like talking with an echo. You don't get any argument but you don't get results either.
age might accepting
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.
beautiful naked common
I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.