No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.
Robert A. HeinleinPremenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.
Robert A. HeinleinNothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.
Robert A. HeinleinThe truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
Robert A. HeinleinHe should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that 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. Or so he seemed to grok. Short human words were never like a short Martian word - such as grok which forever meant exactly the same thing. Short human words were like trying to lift water with a knife. And this had been a very short word.
Robert A. Heinlein