I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.
From my point of view, 'Stranger in a Strange Land' isn't just a science fiction masterpiece; it also happens to be one of my favorite books ever.
Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit
Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.
It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
It was an odd thing to do, to stand in a street in the hope of seeing someone who hardly knew him, but he did not want to move.
When you are in a new country, and you are alone and know that your family don't stay here, it is not simple.
Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
There is no safety this side of the grave
A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but sometimes political -the foreigner may also be pitied from a distance for a short period of time.
Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.
Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.
I always felt like an outer-space alien. I was always breaking the fourth wall.
