“Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe - and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in this frightened… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The uncounted days slid past while he argued with himself over the things that bothered him-problems that had made sad the soul of his breed since the first apeman had risen to self-awareness, questions never solved by full belly nor fine machinery. And the endless quiet days did no more to give him final answers than did all the soul… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share
“It’s the bell curve again,” I said to Ishtar. “If—as Lazarus thinks, and statistics back him up—every migration comes primarily from the right-hand end… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig. — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching oversized braincase and the opposable thumb—this animal barely up from the apes—will endure, will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets—to the stars and beyond—carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage, and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share
“Apparently Blank thinks I am a nice accommodating guy, please explain to him that I am a son of a bitch” — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
“It scared him a little. He had once heard, and was inclined to credit, that a loss of interest in living marked the true… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
“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… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
“He had intended at first to send Ford down in the Chili. It was not gratitude that changed his mind, but respect. Once he had lost office Ford had gone straight to Huxley Field north of Novak Tower, cleared for the vacation satellite Monte Carlo, and had jumped for the New Frontiers instead. Lazarus liked that. "Go for broke" took… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share
When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see,… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
