Ross

“How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate?”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

“The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy

“It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.”
― Robert A Heinlein, Friday

“He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters.”
― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome