Hildy

“Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“There is no safety this side of the grave”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Secrecy begets tyranny.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land