Robert

“The human body is often pleasing, frequently depressing—and never significant per se.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Spark-a-dark, who’s my sire? Will I lay me? Will I stay me? Bless this camp with fire.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower Boxed Set

“devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual code and starting fresh. Most philosophers haven’t the courage for this; they swallow the basics of the present code—monogamy, family pattern, continence, body taboos, conventional restrictions on intercourse, and so forth—then fiddle with details . . . even such piffle as discussing whether the female breast is an obscene sight!”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“The first of ‘Goose’s Two Laws of Survival.’ It runs thus, ‘The weak are meat the strong do eat.’ ”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas