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

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

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.

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.

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

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

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.