What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

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.

I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature and YOU! WILL! ATONE!

The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

I will be a model prisoner, as I have been a model citizen

July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.

He made all countries where he came his own.

The censors wouldn't even let me sit on a guy's lap, and I've been on more laps than a table-napkin.

So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process.

If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.