Robert A. Heinlein on Humor

"I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it’s better to laugh than cry."

"There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe."

"Since when did a mathematician need any tools but his own head? Pythagoras had done well enough with a stick and a stretch of sand."

"He was caught in the old dilemma of the man with unintegrated values, who eats meat but would rather somebody else did the butchering."

"Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy."

"With rank goeth privileges—so it ever shall be. But also with it go responsibility and obligation, always more onerous than the privileges are pleasant."

"If you’re going to be businessmen, don’t confuse the vocation with larceny."

"Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat."

"A man without cash had one arm in a sling."

"How can you argue with a woman who won't?"

"“Yes, maybe it’s just one colossal big joke with no point to it.” Lazarus stood up and stretched and scratched his ribs. “But I can tell you this, Andy, whatever the answers are, here’s one monkey that’s going to keep on climbing, and looking around him to see what he can see, as long as the tree holds out."