A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Robert A. HeinleinGeniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers.
Robert A. HeinleinI do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
Robert A. HeinleinAround the time of the Terran Caesar Augustus, a Martian artist had been composing a work of art. It could have been called a poem, a musical opus, or a philosophical treatise; it was a series of emotions arranged in tragic, logical necessity. Since it could be experienced by a human only in the sense in which a man blind from birth might have a sunset explained to him, it does not matter which category it be assigned.
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. HeinleinThere are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships or missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time. We've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will.
Robert A. Heinlein