Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

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 the kind of boy that can fall in love with any girl because I love with the heart, not the eyes.

Never hesitate to remove yourself from individuals or situations that threaten your peace of mind.

Some art are meant to cut shortstretching them unnecessary makes it dull.

I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappears. A slow smile rises on my face.

We do not kill good people, for the world is better with them in it.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

If you win all the time, you lose the drama in life. To make the happy moments happy, you need the sad moments too.

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

Hillary Clinton's policies unleashed ISIS, spread terrorism and put Iran on a path to nuclear weapons.

For since it is impossible for a created monad to have a physical influence on the inner nature of another, this is the only way in which one can be dependent on another.