When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

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.

God wants you to always call Him not because you need Him but because you love Him. Matthew 22:37

I think the very best attitude for anyone investing in the stock market is to make up his mind to lose money.”— The Duchess Gloriana XII

The ball of dark fur pressed itself into my chest, and I wished she was my kitten, and knew that she was not.

Deserve your dream.

A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey.

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

The American people, intrenched in freedom at home, take their love for it with them wherever they go.