Robert A. Heinlein Quotes

I was thinking that it was regrettable that your tastes have grown canalized so young. There itwas, raining soup-and you were caught without a spoon. Even three days of what you wereoffered-urged on y...

I woke up in bed with a man and a cat. The man was a stranger; the cat was not

I wouldn’t want Larry to die through my oversight. Larry is entitled to work out his own damn foolishness without having it cut short through my carelessness. Duke, I believe in everyone’s working out...

I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.

I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.

If you wanted to teach a baby a lesson, would you cut its head off?

It took you long enough to answer your phone. It’s my phone, Mr. Secretary. Sometimes I don’t answer it at all.

It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry--he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now were identical.

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy—in fact, they’re almost incompati...

Jill, of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time. If it sometimes pains them to make a choice - if the choice turns o...

Jill... had explained homosexuality, after Mike had read about it and failed to grok--and had given him rules for avoiding passes; she knew that Mike, pretty as he was, would attract such. He had foll...

Let me speak first of the matters I observed as a critic. Your world has several pleasures. There is eating. He reached out and pulled off from its bunch a muscat grape, fat and sugar-sweet, and ate i...

Let's skip [Mobile Infantry] tradition for a moment. Can you think of anything sillier than being fired out of a spaceship with nothing but mayhem and sudden death at the other end? However, if someon...

Locked you in a padded cell, with a certificate signed by three doctors, and allowed you mail on alternate leap years.

Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and (so far) the ability against all competition...The Universe will let us know-later-whether Man has any right to expand through it.

Matt, you are suffering from a disease of youth—you expect moral problems to have nice, neat, black-and-white answers.

Maybe the whole world held together only when you kept your attention centered on it and believed in it. If you let discrepancies creep in, you began to doubt and it began to go to pieces.

Me, I had never been sure – only thing I was sure of was that Dr. Chan would not himself sit on a target. But he might not warn his old mother.

Men on the surface of a planet are as helpless against men in spaceships as a man would be trying to conduct a rock-throwing fight from the bottom of a well. The man at the top of the well has gravity...

Minds me of a married woman who was very proud of her virtue. She slept with other men only when her husband was away.