Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

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.

Some pieces will sing to your present, others may echo of your past, and the rest could whisper of your future.

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.

I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car.

Acting is what I love to do.I understand the differences between the different formats. But I enjoy whether it be film, TV or in the theater.

The inside of my wallet is pasture(past your) green.

Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.

Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.