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

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

I used to not back down from a challenge.

What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.

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

I've taught Sunday school, I've sung in the choir, I directed a choir.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.