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

I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his light shine on us all.

Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.

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

Normal' is a dryer setting.

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

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