Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

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.

A great teacher not only teaches, they cultivate green fields to grow beautiful flowers to spread the fragrance of peace, happiness, and prosperity.

religion is for man and not man for religion

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares? He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!

The purest, most beautiful and appealing experiences of life: romance, love, marriage, and parenthood.

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

When I hear Governor Mitt Romney in his speech talk about how the Republican Party must stand for legitimate conservative values. They don't.