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

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

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

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.

It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.

But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.

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