Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must WriteRule Two: Finish What Your StartRule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial OrderRule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Mar...
If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I...
There used to be, dirtside, a legal defenses called diminished capacity and not guilty by reason on insanity. These concepts would bewilder a Loonie. In Luna City a man would necessarily be of diminis...
He does not control is to behave with blind idiocy.
To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.
Marriage is a young man’s disaster and an old man’s comfort. He
It is almost impossible to shake of one's earliest training. Duke, can you get it through your skull that had you been brought up by Martians, you would have the same attitude toward eating and being...
I am all that I grok.
Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more. All the wealthy, unhappy people you're ever met take sleeping pills; Mobile Infantrymen don't need them. Give a cap trooper a bunk...
First, I want your solemn oath not even to talk in your sleep about this job.If my simple word is not good, is my oath better?
But I have no beliefs. Belief gets in the way of learning.
Be raped quietly, you mean.
As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.
All three of us are prisoners of our early indoctrinations, for it is hard, very nearly impossible, to shake off one’s earliest training.
. . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?