Mike Wisn

“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

“...the word 'love' designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are essential to one's own happiness.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics.'
Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.'
Jill: 'I don't pay attention to that, either.”
― Heinlein Robert

“To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers