“Everybody has a skeleton in the closet; the thing is to keep ’em there and not at the feast.”
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 10, “Garson’s Planet” (p. 109)
Quotes from book
Starman Jones
Starman Jones is a 1953 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a farm boy who wants to go to the stars. It was first published by Charles Scribner's Sons as part of the Heinlein juveniles series.
“Like searching at midnight in a dark cellar for a black cat that isn’t there.”
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 11, “Through the Cargo Hatch” (p. 115)
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 19, “A Friend in Need” (p. 210)
“Sic transit gloria mundi—Tuesday is usually worse.”
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 12, “Halcyon” (p. 135)
“A distance “as the crow flies” is significant only to crows.”
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 11, “Through the Cargo Hatch” (p. 111)
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 8, “Three Ways to Get Ahead” (p. 82)
“I guess I don’t understand women.”
“That’s an understatement.”
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 19, “A Friend in Need” (p. 211)
“Oh Max, you large lout, you arouse the eternal maternal in me.”
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 17, “Charity” (p. 185)
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 9, “Chartman Jones” (p. 95)
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 19, “A Friend in Need” (p. 211)
