People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

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.

When you feel sadness inside, wipe it away by cries and tears!

They make friends, they laugh, they shareThey stay in touch, they care.

Social work is an opportunity for huge hearts they remember to do small things.

Every system of power in the world has a vested interest in weakening the individuality of its subjects and tries to weaken or it possible completely extinguish it.

It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

We are the ones who suffer when we hold on to past grievances.

In the New World, happiness is enforced.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.