Quotes from Robert A. Heinlein

You can die anyplace. They've never managed to regulate that.

A man can face known danger. But the unknown frightens him. We

War is a simple matter compared with revolution. War is an applied science, with well-defined principles tested in history; analogous solutions may be found from ballista to H-bomb. But every revolution is a freak, a mutant, a monstrosity, its conditions never to be repeated and its operations carried out by amateurs and individualists.

I never do anything I don't want to. Nor does anyone, but in my case I know it.

When a cat greets you, he makes a big operation of it, bumping, stropping your legs, buzzing like mischief. But when he leaves, he just walks off and never looks back. Cats are smart.

I object to conscription the way a lobster objects to boiling water: it may be his finest hour but it's not his choice.

Politics is not evil; politics is the human race's most magnificent achievement.

Anne is God. I am God. The happy grass are God, Jill groks in beauty always. Jill is God. All shaping and making and creating together.

The universe will let us know—later—whether or not Man has any "right" to expand through it. In

I've been broke even oftener than I've been wealthy. Of the two, being broke is more interesting, as a man who doesn't know where his next meal is coming from is never bored. He may be angry or several other things—but not bored. His predicament sharpens his thoughts, spurs him into action, adds zest to his life, whether he knows it or not.

They want to use him, make him geek.

Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity.

All right, all right, have it your own way! I can't prove I'm right—so I must be wrong. Men!

that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart . . . no matter what the merciless hours have done.

Becky Vesey always gave good advice and she gave it with great conviction because she always believed it.

Harshaw was working as hard as he ever worked. Most of his mind was occupied with watching pretty girls do pretty things with sun and water;

All revelations are personal, that's why all revelations are suspect.

C'mon you apes, you wanna' live forever?

Gratitude' is a euphemism for resentment.

There wasn't any way to be safe; just being alive was deadly dangerous...fatal, in the end.

The fact that Ben retained Cavendish shows how seriously he took the matter; you don't hunt rabbits with an elephant gun.

the government'—that's too sweeping a term. 'The government' is several million people, nearly a million in Washington alone. We have to ask ourselves: Whose toes were being stepped on? What person or persons? Not 'the government'—but what individuals?

You're not privileged to call me 'Boss'; you're not tax deductible.

you are not in my debt. You can't be. Impossible—because I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.