I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

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.

Patriotism is about a desire for progress, not a yearning for repetition.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

If a man would move the world he must first move himself.

Every time you use the word 'healthy, ' you lose. The key is to make yummy, delicious food that happens to be healthy.

I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the country.

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.

The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.

Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

The relationship with yourself is the most important relationship you’ll ever have.

I am kept in bondage by the moles of my beloved.