We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

That was quite an adventure, stopping at a different house each night, seeing new country,.

I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.

Life would have been absolutely empty without imagination.

[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.

I've been in the water so much these past few days, I swear I'm growing fins & scales.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Faculty Meetings are held whenever the need to show off is combined with the imperative of accomplishing nothing.

Have your own life before you become somebody's wife.

XML is a giant step in no direction at all.

If it were possible to meet the Beloved while laughing and in a state of comfort, why should one suffer the anguish of separation?

Live like someone died for you.

Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.

Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.

Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience.