Robert A. Heinlein Way Quotations

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.

There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that.

Between being 'right' and being kind, I know which way I vote.

English is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.

I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

Death is an old friend; I know him well. I lived with him, ate with him, slept with him; to meet him again does not frighten me death is as necessary as birth, as happy in its own way.

Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.

There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, harass, and in all ways make an unbearable nuisance of himself to himself.

Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.

The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " is to place a period after the word "but." Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about.

A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.

Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way now imaginable to kill off the human race.