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

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

People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour.

Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over.

You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.