Even if a tamed wolf makes a good sheepdog, he will never understand how the sheep feel....You are most fortunate. For having been, as you thought, a coward, and helpless to fight - you know what that is like. You know what bitterness that feeling breeds - you know in your own heart what kind of evil it brings. And so you are most fit to fight it where it occurs.

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

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

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.

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.