No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own . . . and that the trouble they are in is all their own doing . . . is one that they can't or won't entertain.

In 1934 he worked actively for the Democratic campaign of Upton Sinclair for Governor of California. F. He also examined the relationship between physical and emotional love explored various unorthodox family structures and speculated on the influence of space travel on human cultural practices.

In his fiction Heinlein coined words that have become part of the English language including "grok" and "waldo" and popularized the terms "TANSTAAFL" and space marine. Heinlein was named the first Science Fiction Writers Grand Master in 1974. He also examined the relationship between physical and emotional love explored various unorthodox family structures and speculated on the influence of space travel on human cultural practices.