Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

God is an iron... and that's a hot one.

I'm going to live forever, or die trying !

And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939.

You become uneasy with people in direct proportion to how many lies you have to keep track of in their presence.

there's nothing in the human heart or mind, no place no matter how twisted or secret, that can't be endured - if you have someone to share it with.