I was always good at math and science and physics.

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college system is so big, so broad, so consuming of tax money.

I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other half were engineering.

But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.

The only kind of movement you could make in the Navy was to be a platoon leader or one of those kinds of things as you got more senior in your Navy career.

I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.

When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.

Excellence is making a rubber shoe initially

Everything in a science-fiction novel should be mentioned at least twice (in at least two different contexts).

Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it’s a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.

I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. I love what I do.

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

There are times when folks will point out certain characteristics I have, like me being an interruptor, and attribute them to my Jewish identity.

Cindy and I are adoptive parents. We know what a treasure and joy it is to have an adopted child in our lives.

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl!

When you slick back your hair, you get a really good idea of just how melon-like your head actually is.