Stranger In A Strange Land Quotes

That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies, I just work here.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

It's a long story. Want a refill?No, let's start the steak. Where's the button?Right here.Well, push it.Me? You offered to cook.Ben Caxton, I will lie here and starve before I will get up to push a button six inches from your fingerAs you wish. He pressed the button. But don't forget who cooked dinner.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

There might be nowhere I would be at home. I might always be straddling two worlds, and finding solace in neither.

~ Eilis O'neal

I was alone, with a stranger, inside the walls of a dark palace, in a strange snow-changed city, in the heart of the Ice Age of an alien world.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin