My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

I can become very emotional about math, although I'm not that good at it.

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

Normal' is a dryer setting.

I used to not back down from a challenge.

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

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.