No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

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.

In the end, the sum of my vices is all me.

Be thou faithful unto death.

Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers.

No, I'm all man. I even fought in WWII. Of course, I was wearing women's undergarments under my uniform.

The truth is, Pavlov's dog trained Pavlov to ring this bell just before the dog salivated.

Whenever you see someone react to something they're reading on their phone, that's life being lived.

A man should eat slowly, properly, even if he eats alone.

Communication is the solvent of all problems and is the foundation for personal development.

Come let us be friends for once. Let us make life easy on us. Let us be loved ones and lovers. The earth shall be left to no one.