The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.
Robert A. HeinleinIf a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.
Robert A. HeinleinArt is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.
Robert A. HeinleinLimiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.
Robert A. Heinlein