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
men lazy-man progress
Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
lying way shut-up
I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
believe way belief
Belief gets in the way of learning.
cells two-sides people
People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin--a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.
men self work-out
I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and says so, I have usually been able to work out some way to do business with him.
writing way rooms
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
laughing able complicated
I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.
writing people diaries
People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.
wisdom philosophy yield
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
psychological faster contracts
Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.
sex america earth
Nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America--and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.
power sight black
Consider the black widow spider. It's a timid little beastie, useful and, for my taste, the prettiest of the arachnids, with its shiny, patent-leather finish and its red hourglass trademark. But the poor thing has the fatal misfortune of possessing enormously too much power for its size. So everybody kills it on sight.
dream atheist children
Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
country baby men
How anybody expects a man to stay in business with every two-bit wowser in the country claiming a veto over what we can say and can't say and what we can show and what we can't show - it's enough to make you throw up. The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.