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
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.
police christ stranger-in-a-strange-land
Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit
beautiful naked common
I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
economic pardon theory
You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all wrong.
sleep dust miles
You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.
book men needs
...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.
pride fishing dancing
But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.
stupid government three
Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
heart people mistress
Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.