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

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.

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

Normal' is a dryer setting.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

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

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.