I like the Beatles, of course, but that's when I grew up.

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.

An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.

Storytelling excites me. Nothing gets me more juiced up than having an impact on people.

The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practise.

I guess, as they say, I never acquired a taste for [caviar].

Because when I get to heaven, the first face that shall ever gladden my sight will be that of my Savior.

If you get yourself killed, I'll find your grave and spit on it," she threatened.

Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.

I think as a filmmaker my first contribution would just be to make a good movie that people would love to see and leave the theatre charged, with a sense of excitement.

You can't change the wind. But you can adjust the sails to reach your destination

Doctors still retain a high degree of public confidence because they are perceived as healers. Should lawyers not be healers? Healers, not warriors? Healers, not procurers? Healers, not hired guns?