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

Having to struggle gave me the chance to demonstrate strength of character.

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

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

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

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

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