The test of a sword is not its polish but its temper

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.

You make me come alive- too alive. It's breathless, like a disaster. Ravishing, like crossing over into the desert and losing your bearings. Nothing's the same again.

The white man knows how to make everything but he does not know how to distribute it.

The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone.

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

Kind words not only lift our spirits in the moment they are given, but they can linger with us over the years.

I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I am not going to protest.

I can't force the direction that it's going to go without actually taking the time to make sure it's a great, great quality product. Whether that's for apparel, or whatever the case may be.

That which destroys the old mythos becomes the new mythos.

To me, what separates a funny movie from a good movie is something personal.

Jesus did not send us into the world to make believers but to make disciples.