It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.

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.

Wisdom mitigates the risk of being honest.

Love is ease.

Why are all pretty boys insane?

I am not lazy. I am on the amphetamine of the soul. I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter believes in.

After all, mirrors are only as truthful as the eyes that are looking into them.

Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.

The heart set to do the Father's will, need never fear defeat.

If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.

I think jeans with a little give are the smartest for a flight.

I joke that I spent 38 years scouring the globe, going to war zones, trying to find the person with my exact birthday.