I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.

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

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.