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
psychosis neurosis sin
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.
honest truthful autobiography
Autobiography is usually honest but it is never truthful.
liars men wind
Once a man gets a reputation as a liar, he might as well be struck dumb, for people do not listen to the wind.
law moral-behavior survival
Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
latin simple english-grammar
Nothing could go wrong because nothing had...I meant "nothing would." No - Then I quit trying to phrase it, realizing that if time travel ever became widespread, English grammar was going to have to add a whole new set of tenses to describe reflexive situations - conjugations that would make the French literary tenses and the Latin historical tenses look simple.
lying long wish
It's a long story. Want a refill?" "No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?" "Right here." "Well, push it." "Me? You offered to cook." "Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a button six inches from your finger" "As you wish." He pressed the button. "But don't forget who cooked dinner.
way civilized tamed
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.
art
Thou art god, I am god. All that groks is god.
gratitude resentment euphemism
Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.
mean like-love want
Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.
boss littles little-things
Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.
people type certain
Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.
intelligent organization spiders
The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites; they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.
boss may judgment
Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.