One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.

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.

Jesus, I am sorry.

Illumination is remembering your identity as the eternal spirit and energy that animates all that is.

Elizabeth, you resemble nothing so much as a hen trying to hatch a book.

Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. It wouldn't be acting.

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.

Even before I knew Yoga in this life, I was into that kind of thing.

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

Sometimes I’m afraid that I’m losing myself.

Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion.