Quotes By Robert A. Heinlein

One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.