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
kids romance feelings
I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be - instead of the tawdry, lousy fouled-up mess it is.
long patterns easy
Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.
crazy animal doe
Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.
sex lying thinking
(E)ach generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken. Anything along that line today was commonplace both in Pompeii and in Victorian England; the differences lie only in the degree of coverup -- if any.
believe love-is bravery
Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count.
littles example news
Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.
growing-up thinking cynical
I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.
running zest giving
Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.
kissing moments stolen-kisses
When he kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe, and the moment is eternal because he doesn't have any plans and isn't going anywhere. Just kissing you ... it's overwhelming.
inspirational freedom mistress
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for every thing I do.
shapes emotion foolish
You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.
injustice sin cruelty
Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.
liars common-sense gone
Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.
men together illogical
Customs tell a man who he is, where he belongs, what he must do. Better illogical customs than none; men cannot live together without them.