Normal' is a dryer setting.

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.

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.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Fate will unwind as it must!

Sarcasm is one of the many services I offer to people who ask stupid questions!

Let me tell you something: I love the Yankees. And let me tell you why: because without the Yankees, there is nobody to hate.

Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.

The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable.

Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.

I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.

I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.

Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.