I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

Normal' is a dryer setting.

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

Standing in our power requires us to let go of the need to make others like us & instead stand committed to honoring ourselves.

I'm a Roman Catholic! A devout Roman Catholic.

Every day, try to help someone who can't reciprocate your kindness.

In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.

It's not "wishful" thinking.

Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.

My job is to make the players I'm playing with better. I'm going to be the cat that does a lof of the ‘other things.'