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.

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.

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.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

You can always improve your fitness if you keep training.

Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed.

I'm really into fashion.

The man who loves his job never works a day in his life.

Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.

A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.

I don't think I'm a criminal, number one.

Obviously, you have to know what you need now and what you will soon need, then hire or promote from within to meet those needs.

People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting.