Do this. Don't do that. Stay back in line. Where's tax receipt? Fill out form. Let's see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop deadโ but first get permit.
Robert A. HeinleinOne of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Robert A. HeinleinThen I glanced at the ring on my finger. The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came fromโbut where did all you zombies come from? I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did onceโand you all went away. So I crawled into bed and whistled out the light. You arenโt really there at all. There isnโt anybody but meโJaneโhere alone in the dark. I miss you dreadfully!
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. HeinleinEnglish 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.
Robert A. Heinlein