Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

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.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

Peace ought not be regarded the height of civilization, else like barbarians we forever battle for peace.

Zombies dont mess with other zombies.

The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice

Foods to eliminate or minimize include items that are canned, frozen, microwaved, or highly processed. Focus on eating a variety of fresh and freshly-prepared food.

You must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

We have to take people that are here illegally, and we have to move them out. And you know what? It's going to be done.

My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.

Blank pages inspire me with terror.

The devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God.