I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

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

Normal' is a dryer setting.

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

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

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

There is simple ignorance, not knowing, and willful ignorance that refuses to know, that covers the light of knowledge with the dark blanket of bias.