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

When a person responds emotionally to intellectual things, or emotionally only to traditional emotional things - I find that an interesting break between myself and some other writers and fans.

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

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

I used to not back down from a challenge.

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

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